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

“Shipwrecks and cannibals. Does that ring any bells, Miss Lumley? I know you filch books from my library sometimes; don’t deny it.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

Neoptolemus, at the instance of Ulysses, filches from Philoctetes the bow and arrows, but being overcome by his nobler nature restores them.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

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

Carlton’s descent into a fog of Alzheimer’s is untimely, as his organization has been tasked with retrieving some tactical nukes filched from a U.S. base in Poland and spirited into Belarus.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018

He knew a hundredfold of me compared to what I had filched from him.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

As unemployment rates nationwide have sunk to record lows, filching workers — from kitchens and construction sites, warehouses and Walmarts, truck cabs and nursing homes — has become routine.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

It is great that your daughter wants to cook, but let her manage her own ingredients, rather than filching yours, and see how quickly she learns to slow down and take it carefully.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018

It carries duties with it, duties which are imperative and which to shirk is filching benefits without rendering an equivalent.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted