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filch

[filch] / fɪltʃ /


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He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2020

Though China has often used computer hacking to filch secrets, this case relied on traditional espionage techniques, including the attempted recruitment of corporate insiders.

From Washington Post Oct. 10, 2018

The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2018

The window of opportunity is rapidly closing on them: Every new story idea the duo comes up with is already claimed by Shakespeare, a shameless plagiarist always eager to filch an idea from Nigel's notebook.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2017

‘I hadn’t thought to filch it! Not bad idea. Guess I’ll... guess I’ll...’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

"But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2018

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2015

By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices — the joke is on you.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2012

“Silence, sir,—‘But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that—of that—’” “Rob you of what, sar?”

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2021

But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched.

From New York Times Sep. 24, 2021

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate Mar. 5, 2019

Since somebody had filched the school map, we’d hoped to be free of that subject.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2020

As unemployment rates nationwide have sunk to record lows, filching workers — from kitchens and construction sites, warehouses and Walmarts, truck cabs and nursing homes — has become routine.

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2019

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian Nov. 16, 2018

For example, the fox is full of wit, and withall given wholly to filching for his prey.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower




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