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

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

It’s a line that Mr. Malkovich might easily filch to excuse his participation in this execrable remarriage comedy, one that’s mystifyingly seeded with acting heavyweights.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2017

"Of course. The book keeper keeps it under lock and key. People filch them sometimes, you know. Do their own version. It hurts our box, then."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

"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

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

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

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

She filched one anyway, and ate it on her way out.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful I. 3.25 singer; he kept not time.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover