filch

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

The 14-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Xiaoqing Zheng of Niskayuna, N.Y., and Zhaoxi Zhang of China’s Liaoning province teamed up to filch millions of dollars’ worth of General Electric’s aviation trade secrets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019

Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2018

‘I hadn’t thought to filch it! Not bad idea. Guess I’ll... guess I’ll...’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices — the joke is on you.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012

"And that not one in ten thousand can refer to the particular treasury he filches."

From The Egoist by George Meredith

Philharmonic to cellist Peter Stumpf after it had been filched from the front porch of his Los Feliz home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019

Now, this could be because they’re lost in the mail — or filched by a letter carrier who’s really interested in bauxite — but I have a nagging suspicion they never existed at all.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2018

Since somebody had filched the school map, we’d hoped to be free of that subject.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020

Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2020

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

His stealth was too open, his filching was like An vnskilfull singer, he kept not time.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover