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 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

He’d head up to Connecticut and filch Fred in the middle of the night.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 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

She produces evidence: a sanitary pad, filched from Perdie’s wastebasket.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

She tackles him after he is caught filching some grub, prompting my favorite admonishment of the episode, and maybe the entire series thus far.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2015

It was fair filching by night, as the Major will tell you.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy