steal
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The worst-case scenario is what he calls “honeypot situations,” which can impact both genders, where someone is planted to steal money or corporate information under the guise of a romantic relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Threatening to steal the leaders' thunder is Jensen Huang's resignation as boss of US AI chip titan Nvidia after an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Second-year forward Adou Thiero, who only made his season debut two games ago after struggling with left knee swelling, had two points, two rebounds, an assist and a steal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Hackers also steal API keys directly from large corporations with enterprise accounts, making as much as $100,000 in fraudulent charges in a single day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
“She’ll think you’re trying to steal business from her, and the miller will probably withhold our rations, the lying cheat.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Their 18.5 turnovers forced per game rank third in the league, and they average an NBA-best 11 steals per game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
The author highlights a memorable sequence in “Purple Noon” in which Delon’s character steals another man’s clothing and impersonates him in the mirror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Across a preliminary evening and three “days”—“Das Rheingold,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung”—the dwarf Alberich renounces love, steals the Rhine’s gold and forges an all-powerful ring that Wotan, ruler of the gods, steals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"Friedreich ataxia is a devastating rare genetic disease that progressively steals a child's ability to walk, speak, play, and ultimately survive," she says.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“Noun: An extra shoe you keep in your pocket. In case someone steals one of yours while you’re asleep with your head under the mailbox.”
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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Separately from the FaceStealer scheme, members of the North Korean military, referred by the FBI as “TraderTraitor,” stole more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
“Just hypothetically, if someone stole a car six years ago, I feel pretty certain that the police are not going to wait six years to come after that person,” she said.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
“My friend, who’s an actor in New York, said, ‘Oh, my God, finally a really talented actor stole a job from AI,’ ” McClure said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
One copycat AI video stole her joke about asking out a personal trainer -- a bit she once delivered on popular TV host Jimmy Fallon's show.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
“It wasn’t Michael. It was me. I stole your stuff.”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"We've stolen one of our neighbours' cats by accident," she laughs, in a Zoom call from her fixer-upper in New Cross, south-east London.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
In one instance, a witness said a member of the Salinas group had stolen necklaces, and prosecutors said law enforcement later found multiple gold necklaces in his backpack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
A trailer at the end of the premiere indicates there will be plenty of drama, tense conversations, stolen kisses and tears both happy and sad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Some of these attacks appear aimed at supplying the stolen compute to illicit websites known as transfer stations, according to researchers at Google’s cloud-security division, Wiz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
How was I going to find a source of stolen ration cards?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Sandra contacted the BBC in response to a report about teenagers boasting on TikTok about stealing motorbikes.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
In the film, she says, “In reality, the only thing I’m really guilty of is being gullible and trusting my husband,” adding she did not know the stealing was happening until “after the fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
We’re intruders, stealing glimpses of a private domestic drama not meant for our prying eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
In recent months, the two countries have traded accusations of stealing AI technologies and jeopardising security.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“We know there are lots of enthusiastic Morpho fans here. But stealing is wrong.”
From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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