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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

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

Did he send a staffer to pilfer them from the school library?

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 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

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

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

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

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley

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

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

This time, they burst through the double doors and pilfered snacks, leaving a trail of candy and corn nuts behind them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage wards.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

But Aragon is a little lock-crazy: He has screwed a tiny hasp onto his plastic lunch box and hangs a combination lock there, because of the sodas he’s lost to pilfering officers, he says.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover