purloin

That's why he has to purloin someone else's work in order to finish off his novel.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

It is the first to show some T cells purloin a protein called CD20 from the surface of B cells, he adds.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2022

A series of turns leads Bunton, during an ill-conceived trip to London to make his case against the BBC license fee to Parliament and the media, to purloin the Wellington portrait from the National Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

Or, to purloin a line from his novel: Are we all characters in a Beckett play directed by Sartre?

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2018

He hesitated, then stomped back the way he’d come, stopping to purloin a clean shirt from another cabin.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

With a fee that she purloins from a church collection plate, she implores him for help and he agrees, as he learns more about this young girl’s challenging childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

He survives, and in the chaos purloins a painting that his mother loved and with which he becomes obsessed.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019

Desperate to buy her father out of debtor’s prison, she purloins a copy of his thesis and sets out to win the Great God Contest herself.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2015

The best exemplar of the species is probably E. W. Hornung’s Raffles, who was educated at the best schools, plays cricket for England, moves among the upper classes and discreetly purloins their jewels.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012

It is astonishing what pecuniary sacrifices genius will make, when it purloins the trumpet of Fame to puff itself into temporary notoriety.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

Users, including Fortune 500 companies, are turning to unregulated, possibly purloined “open weight” Chinese AI models to save money and avoid exposing their data to the big domestic labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Not long afterward, another male red fox entered the scene of the crime; the purloined repast had been his.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

He eluded an FBI manhunt for two weeks while he supplied copies of the purloined report to more than a dozen other major newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

The task of finding the missing millions and those who purloined it falls to May de Silva, the country's Anti-Corruption Commissioner.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022

She had a cloth bag with food purloined from the fridge slung across her chest.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

With regard to a Hemingway purloining on “Love and Theft”: “Dylan implants only part of the original sentence, while presumably expecting us to cough up the whole.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

A simple but effective way to stop auto bandits from purloining your key fob signal is to use a Faraday bag or pouch.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

And those who get their kicks from purloining stuff that they’re expected to pay for were especially grumpy.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2014

One of the rare politicians who paid a price for purloining was Joe Biden, whom I profiled in the magazine last week.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2014

This was a more fearful fruit of his nourished greed than the purloining was.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by J. R. (James Russell) Miller