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

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

Stealthily, from its roost on the ceiling, one bat reached out and purloined his sun hat.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

It knew thief and steal and, maybe, purloined.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides