thieve

The Nats have led the majors in stolen bases all season, rejecting a trend: Never risk an out — and a chance to swing for the fences — to thieve one measly base.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2019

The scouting report is out, and they start to thieve second like it’s a jewelry store with a salamander for a security guard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2016

Four Women Simone’s interpretations of existing songs were so emphatic that other artists would often thieve her version rather than the original performer’s.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2016

The motherbirds thieve the air To appease them.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014

No one but Kunthi, coming stealthily by night to thieve from us what little we had, unashamed as she was and always had been.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

“They’ve taken everything,” Denis said, adding: “These aren’t high-schoolers. It’s thieves coming from all the projects, all the banlieues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

There are now window railings at the upper-level Apollo Gallery where thieves broke in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Join police on the hunt for high-tech thieves behind a wave of UK car crime.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Investigations reporter NJ Convery has been out with police as they hunt for thieves.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Actual detectives like Lépine and Bertillon began to expect this sort of ingenuity from actual thieves, especially in the so-called superior, refined class of crimes.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Nate Craig, a vocal fan of Pilates classes featuring large glass windows, admits, “A couple of years ago I got my identity stolen … thieved … married is what I meant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

More dogs were thieved than any other pet by more than 1,000.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

You feel the presence of many, many others around you in here and you want to know who these people are who were thieved of identity when they were rendered collectibles.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020

Timbers said, “The theatrical engine of building the whole thing just from a person with a boom box—I have certainly thieved that many times in my own work.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

As the boys ran off with the thieved chocolate, Danny zipped his backpack shut again and ate his lunch in silence while the other kids sat in groups.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Alcutt recently encountered a woman who was part of a suspected thieving group processing stolen copper in an encampment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

By contrast, the 1974 James Caan/Alan Arkin buddy cop movie “Freebie and the Bean” became one of her favorite movies, thanks to its thieving female impersonator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

The seeds were there—not to make the case that Bankman-Fried was innocent or a victim of circumstance, but that he was the type of thieving fraud worthy of some extra consideration.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2024

Judges found the accused guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, spurred on by a campaign by the French rapper Booba against "thieving influencers".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024

Jesus had righteous indignation when he turned over the tables in the temple and drove out the thieving moneychangers.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd