steal
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The FBI said it has disrupted a highly tailored, hard-to-detect cryptocurrency theft scheme by a North Korean hacking group that has managed to steal billions across the world in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
"We don't want people who are jerks. We don't want people who try to steal the show and don’t work well with others," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Previously, so long as they maintained their bind, individuals could work their way round, pulling apart the attacking team's momentum and threatening to steal possession.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
A steal by Luka Doncic with 1:44 remaining fueled the streak and the star point guard threw an outlet pass to Carr in transition, who collected the ball for an emphatic two-handed dunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
He’d said the Mona Lisa would be no easier to steal than the massive towers of Notre-Dame, the medieval French cathedral.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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In addition to having the highest scoring average through nine games since Chamberlain, Doncic is the team’s second-leading rebounder at 7.8 per game and is second with 1.7 steals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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
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
Mamukelashvili had 13 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals in 30 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
By night it creeps from its lair and steals toward the settlements of civilization!
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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“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
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
The Presley.plaintiffs claim the Massachusetts-based AI company stole “Elvis’ likeness and copyrights,” while Eight Mile Style says Suno disregarded “the rights of Eight Mile Style” by making unlicensed copies of its songs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Hugo Keenan stole the headlines with his hat-trick, while Dan Sheehan, Sam Prendergast and Ronan Kelleher also crossed.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
“How dare you suggest I’m anything like that witch! She stole that trick from me.”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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FBI officials said efforts to trace, freeze, seize and forfeit the stolen virtual assets are ongoing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
GC: I think New York is just a much more competitive place and people are very wary of having ideas stolen from them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Following another hack at AI infrastructure company Zeabur, stolen API keys were used for $100,000 in charges, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 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
“I was stolen by a Manifestor who answered to Roho. He ordered the Manifestor to hide me in his colony.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Earlier in the year, former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted in San Francisco after stealing 2,000 pages of confidential documents detailing Google’s AI and supercomputing infrastructure and uploading it to a cloud account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
We’re intruders, stealing glimpses of a private domestic drama not meant for our prying eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
A thief who was stealing a 300-year-old wall piece by piece was caught when a man put a tracking device in one of the stones.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
In recent months, the two countries have traded accusations of stealing AI technologies and jeopardising security.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
But he did not admit to stealing the Mona Lisa—he hadn’t stolen it, after all.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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