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Forcing social media platforms to pay for the news and information they pilfer and monetize seems a quite modest and reasonable step.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

But when Uncle Murray refuses to pay up, and Marty has to pilfer the money for his trip, the road to global eminence takes some sharp turns.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

The reason is that if hackers pilfer your password from one service, they can try it on your other accounts and easily get into all of them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

They break into garages, pilfer supposedly unreachable bird feeders and ransack trash bins, even defeating lids specifically designed to thwart them.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

I head toward the kitchen to see what I can pilfer before dinner.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Website publishers, particularly media outlets, say that AI pilfers their content without compensation to feed its models.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

Locals in the town of Munnar, near Padayappa's habitat, call him a "gentle giant" who has never hurt anyone, even though he occasionally pilfers food from their homes and farms at night.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023

Everybody pilfers their elders' closets at some point; why shouldn't Netflix raid Fox's?

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023

One bonus: She pilfers his sweats, which she finds more comfortable than the versions for women she finds in stores.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2014

He steals the milk from the Lamb, he steals the honey from the children of the Bee, even as the Melecta pilfers the pottage of the Anthophora's sons.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Disappointing earnings reports triggered a selloff in tech and AI shares, while Binance reported hackers pilfered $6.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Setup: After Woody gets pilfered by a toy dealer, he discovers he’s part of a rare vintage set that includes Jessie and a horse named Bullseye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

After 56 minutes the Murrayfield crowd, still euphoric after Huw Jones' second try, were halfway through a rendition of Flower of Scotland, when Rory Darge pilfered a turnover inside his own 22m.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

With money pilfered from the firm, Kamon financed construction projects at his homes in Palos Verdes and Encino, according to the plea agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

My parents never offered them, and the glass doors obviously guarded them, and so I pilfered from that case.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The theft prompted the city’s Police Department to warn residents that bronze pilfering was a “growing concern” across Southern California and urge community members to report suspicious activity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

What’s more, China has a history of pilfering technology to get ahead: In 2025, one in five European companies in China said that Chinese firms had stolen technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Yes, using the DOJ’s website, users are pilfering software and documents from the Epstein files.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

He probably feels more awful about his after-hours pilfering than you do.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025

Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf.

From "1984" by George Orwell