steal
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As part of a long-standing Lampoon prank, he once set out to break into the office of the rival Harvard Crimson to steal the president’s chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I grew up in South Texas watching the compadre system steal from us while our families struggled to get by,” De La Cruz said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But due to a flaw that could allow attackers to take control of affected web servers without authentication and steal sensitive data, everything built on PHP was left exposed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“The calls are designed to steal sensitive personal information or money by collecting ‘payments’ that are not applied to the victim’s account.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
"You don't want to steal our secret recipe, do you?"
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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Matisse Thybulle, another key defensive offseason addition, had two steals and made two threes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Nobody wants a system that goes rogue, deceives users, steals data or acts maliciously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The great Guinness robbery" is the Daily Star's top story, headlining on "truck gang steals 70k pints".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
And, if the wins keep piling up, San Dimas might need to put a fence around his classroom so no one steals him away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
"She steals in on little mice feet, but a man hears," he said.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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The child's mother, Wiley, has denied she and her friend stole nappies from the store.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Theron, who starred this year in presumed best picture frontrunner “The Odyssey,” and Domingo, who appeared in “Disclosure Day” and “Michael,” stole the red carpet spotlight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Occasionally, someone stole one, apparently deciding that a restaurant pager belonged in the same category of souvenir as a pebbled Coke glass.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The Louvre heist revealed that thieves are increasingly stealing gold, bronze and jewels more than traditional paintings—a turnabout from a century ago when a thief stole its “Mona Lisa,” later recovered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
What if Laurence went out to get some ice cream and didn’t remember to lock the door to his house and someone broke into it and stole Thor?
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Beverly Hills police have taken reports of stolen “Judy” and “David” yard signs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Los Angeles could not exist the way that it does without stolen water,” AnMarie Mendoza, a Tongva citizen and University of California, Los Angeles doctoral researcher, told Salon.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Two years ago this week, the singer's car was stolen, along with all of her songwriting notebooks and demos.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
PSA reported to police that two stolen pallets of about 100 packages of cards apiece had an approximate value of $963,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
To the Paris police, it was an extremely promising lead: a thief who stole from the Louvre and a Parisian painter who bought stolen goods.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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However, many in Hollywood, its unions, and the public at large are suspicious of the surge in AI use, worried it is stealing the work of human creatives and taking people’s jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The supporting cast, which also includes Fiona Shaw stealing every scene as the gossipy, generous Mrs. Jennings, is terrific.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
In January, a former Google software engineer was convicted of stealing thousands of pages of confidential information relating to the company’s AI trade secrets and giving the material to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
I don’t think my sister is stealing, and I don’t think she’s being outrageous.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
All because, as Theo would have me believe, he was stealing away to drop letters in a mailbox located blocks away because his parents think he is thousands of miles away.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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