steal
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“He’d steal the toque off your head the second day, and the third day he’d steal your running shoes. He is not to be trusted whatsoever.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Miles, who starred at Notre Dame before playing a season at TCU, was drafted by the Lynx second overall behind former UConn star Azzi Fudd—a choice that already looks like a steal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
O'Neill said the club has a bargain in Duran and the early signs are that he was an absolute steal at somewhere between £4.5m and £6m, depending on who's talking.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"I can't let the settlers steal my house while I was watching," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
I’m relieved Nate didn’t ask too many questions about why I wanted to steal my own dog, because that’d be the first question I would’ve asked.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Somewhere between the Pyrenees and Santiago, I learned that when life steals your momentum, maybe the answer is to just keep walking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Brink, who had seven points, seven rebounds and two steals, got into foul trouble in the third quarter, going into the fourth with four.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
James averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists, 6.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals a game for the Lakers last season and said he was considering retirement strongly when the campaign concluded.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
OK, the fact that Jennifer Coolidge steals the show also helps, as does the stunning cuteness of Buster the teacup chihuahua, along with the evergreen pizazz of the bend-and-snap sequence.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
He crawls up swordsmen’s shirts, steals arrows from archers’ backs, and straight-up trips people.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Singapore has charged a British man for theft more than two years after he allegedly stole a denim jacket from a store at the airport shopping mall.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Finance professionals, doctors and lawyers recount being taken in by tricks like the jury-duty swindle that stole $25,000 from a Florida woman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Ramones eventually retired because of interpersonal issues: Johnny stole Joey’s girlfriend.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Then there’s the recent hooliganism of an OpenAI model, which escaped a testing environment, stole credentials of multiple private-company servers, then burglarized one to steal the answer to a problem-solving challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Maybe you stole the slippers just so you could write a killer story about it for your website!"
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
Over three hundred bags containing 400,000 oysters were stolen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Just to quietly do what he did the previous season as a Chicago Cub, when he slashed .266/.377/.464 with 22 home runs, 73 RBIs and 25 stolen bases in 136 games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Other pieces stolen in the heist remain missing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But he’d stolen the Mona Lisa for Italy!
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The Mabna Institute was founded in 2013 to assist Iranian academic organisations in "stealing access to non-Iranian scientific resources", according to the DoJ.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We look through the garbage so we can eat without stealing or hurting anyone," said Manuel Sanchez Angeira, 50, who has mouth cancer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a request for a Los Angeles influencer charged with stealing luxury items from wealthy older men she met on dating apps to be diverted into mental health treatment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The media industry is a growth driver for the AI economy, and those that tear it down—those that are stealing IP—are hurting growth,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
“But you were the only one stealing from her, Glenn.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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