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

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

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

But the moment passed, and in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded its own plutonium-based atomic bomb — largely by re-creating Hanford 1,000 miles east of Moscow using blueprints purloined from the Manhattan Project.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

But remember when Arondir described Theo’s purloined sword-hilt as a kind of key?

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

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

It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

PARIS—French authorities said they’ve detained four more people in connection to the Louvre heist, including a man suspected of being the only thief to remain at large after purloining the nation’s crown jewels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

“You know, they say that Atlanta influences everything,” Williams told the crowd, purloining a phrase often used to describe Atlanta’s paramount place in African American and broader American culture.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022

At one British university, students were purloining towels from their dispensers, so Sofidel provided dispensers with locks.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2019

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

A market-man had watched him for some time purloining his vegetables, and on the first of the year, sent in a bill of several dollars, for turnips, potatoes, parsnips, &c.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge