heist
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They reportedly entered the library by its main entrance mid-morning and headed towards the nearest metro station following the heist.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
A smart and entertaining heist story unfolds, which Mr. Rich pads out with a less convincing subplot about Tim’s doomed affair with Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, county prosecutor John McKinney tapped into voter frustration with homeless encampments, a blighted downtown and general distrust of City Hall to pull off a last-minute heist of the second runoff spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The theft of the Mona Lisa—the art heist of the century—was discovered because Louis Béroud got bored.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
In one of the NBA’s all-time heists, Pelinka brought the then-25-year-old Slovenian superstar to L.A. from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for essentially an aging and injury-prone Anthony Davis and just one first-round draft pick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"She would do anything for her family - and she joins them as a way to protect them from themselves and the real danger that is involved in heists."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Two heists made in broad daylight present a scarier challenge for museums worn out by soup-throwing protesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
A vivid example: the strangest jewel heists in history, the year before the Mona Lisa disappeared.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
“Fake and so plastic, you’ve heisted the magic/ You’ve taken the drums and the accent you rapped in/ You’re branded ‘hip-hop,’ it’s so fascist and backwards.”
From Time ● Jan. 22, 2016
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
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