heist
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It was the Peanut Butter heist that won me over.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
“You know how in the spy thriller or the heist movie, you’re introduced to the crew at the beginning,” Obama wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
A smart and entertaining heist story unfolds, which Mr. Rich pads out with a less convincing subplot about Tim’s doomed affair with Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It was like a slow-motion version of the Louvre Museum heist, pulled off on a sunny day in Riverside in view of guests, staff and visitors,” wrote David Allen of the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The heist wasn’t a hard case to solve.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Recent high-profile museum heists beg the question: What can be done to ensure your personal collection doesn’t meet the same fate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 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
“Fake and so plastic, you’ve heisted the magic/ You’ve taken the drums and the accent you rapped in/ You’re branded ‘hip-hop,’ it’s so fascist and backwards.”
From Time ● Jan. 22, 2016
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)
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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