purloin

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

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was purloin.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

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

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

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

To emphasise the veracity of its spooky goings-on, it purloins real events such as the 2004 tsunami and the 7 July London bombings, and even subtitles its foreigners.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

So he purloins mine, and brings them before the public, quite certain that I shall not protest But he does not take me in.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall

Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

Its most alarming prop is a coffee cup, accidentally purloined, and what passes for a mastermind is a housing bureaucracy that’s evil only in its inefficiency.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

Her goal: to use the purloined flower to create a game-changing hybrid rose, win the famed Bagatelle International New Rose Contest and salvage her business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

But while the purloined guitar presented no ownership problem, his remaining property did.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

It would be well to have those cakes and to destroy them; was it worth the trouble of finding and purloining them?

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield