purloined

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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

Betancourt tells us that “Hello Stranger” begins in “a place where I’ve long purloined many of my most head-spinning obsessions: the movies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

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

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