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

The Louvre heist revealed that thieves are increasingly stealing gold, bronze and jewels more than traditional paintings—a turnabout from a century ago when a thief stole its “Mona Lisa,” later recovered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Authorities used the footage to track down the thieves and in August the prints were recovered.

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

“This mo‘olelo is about one ‘iwa. Like the bird you saw today. ‘Iwa are known as thieves.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

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

She plays a thieving fox whom Po apprehends stealing relics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

Sentencing, the district judge said: "Seemingly, even the birds are not beyond your thieving grasp. You may conceive of these as just eggs but they are protected. This was a deplorable thing to do."

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke