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There, detectives watched a four-person crew suspected in the thefts pilfer more Scratchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

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

A tuba is also much harder for a thief to pilfer than, say, a piccolo, or even a trumpet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

There's never a need to pilfer through your cabinets, to be knocked over in a cascade of plastic storage containers à la those decades old infomercials, or to haphazardly use a cumbersome espresso maker.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 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

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

And here’s the worst part: If a company ultimately pilfers inventions or trade secrets or anything else from users, it will already be too late.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2012

Withal, thoroughly good-natured and obliging, and perfectly honest, except where food and drink are concerned, which he pilfers like a monkey. 

From Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon

Historically, authorities have clawed back pilfered funds about 75% of the time when scams were reported within 72 hours, said the FBI’s Lynch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

It was Becerra’s dormant state political account that allegedly got pilfered of $225,000 while he was health secretary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

It is believed Gordon Stewart Wimbush pilfered the plate while he was studying at Gonville & Caius College, which he joined in 1908.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Instead of using the financing for the benefit of the company, James “secretly pilfered some of the company’s assets to fund his and his family’s lavish lifestyle,” the complaint alleges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Leave a prospect to too late in the evening and you were liable to discover someone else had pilfered the body first.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Ohtani seems to steal second or third base any time he pleases, so pilfering five more is entirely plausible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

We both ended up acing the test, but that episode kind of took the excitement out of climbing and pilfering tests and pretty much everything else.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx