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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 company says it’s beefing up security protocols to make it harder for hackers to use stolen credentials or access tools to pilfer data.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 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

Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said the scheme to pilfer the fund, known as 1MDB, was “massive in its scale” and “brazen in its execution.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 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

Hsiao-kang, the son of a taxi driver, swats cockroaches instead of doing his math homework; Ah-tze, a small-time thief, pilfers coins out of phone booths.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020

They say that if one thief pilfers from another, the devil laughs.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

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

At times, when throws were pilfered or just launched over the back with no jumper and seemingly no communication, it was an unholy mess.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

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

The heavy and double-walled steel structure of the machine is also less likely to be pilfered from than stores with ammunition sitting on an open shelf.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2024

Some people had small surprises—a potato they had saved or something they had pilfered.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

Slowly, painfully, he realizes they are miserable not because of one another but because they are poor, a hardship he has been quietly worsening by pilfering their stores.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

The first explained to me, “I beg pardon, sir. It weren’t our aim to slap the wrist of any pilfering hand.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson