filch

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

The 14-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Xiaoqing Zheng of Niskayuna, N.Y., and Zhaoxi Zhang of China’s Liaoning province teamed up to filch millions of dollars’ worth of General Electric’s aviation trade secrets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019

Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 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

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

She snorts when she laughs, filches food from the pantry, just because she can, and runs free through the bar-infested woods.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

To Othello he said, "Who steals my purse steals trash, but he who filches from me my good name ruins me."

From Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. (Edith) Nesbit

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Lisa Graves, the former Leahy counsel who’d written the filched strategy memo, watched the hearing from her home in Wisconsin.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 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

The thief must have been upset to discover that he had filched not a purse but a book full of scribbles.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

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

It is great that your daughter wants to cook, but let her manage her own ingredients, rather than filching yours, and see how quickly she learns to slow down and take it carefully.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018

You do not owe Madam Beaubien the money you are daily filching from her?

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking