filch
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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
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
“Just gimme an opportunity, Cap. I’ll filch it for ya.”
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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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
“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
But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Philharmonic to cellist Peter Stumpf after it had been filched from the front porch of his Los Feliz home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
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
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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
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
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