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heist

[hahyst] / haɪst /




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The scope of the heist was not immediately known, but blockchain analytics company Chainalysis said its "current estimate on amount stolen is approx $5.912B at time of theft."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, Afram has started hiring crew for his next project, a heist film called “C.L.A.Y.” based on another script he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s curious, actually, that a heist film would follow even this closely an actual art theft—still among the missing are historic pieces from the French crown jewels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Canadian prosecutors have dropped charges against two men accused of being involved in a massive gold heist in Toronto in 2023.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

A spate of heists at French museums -- including at the Louvre -- has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

"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

She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

That’s a cliff-falling 65% drop from the movie’s Fri.–Sun. total a week ago, when it heisted $97.4 million on its way to a holiday weekend total of $117 million.

From Time ● Jun. 2, 2013

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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