pilferer
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He wrote a letter to the American Medical Association, proclaiming that “some unconscionable scientific pilferer is trying to steal my entire life.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The police arrived quickly and the posh pilferer had already disappeared, another indication that he knew what he was after, Rouches said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2011
Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country," found him guilty, sentenced him to pay a $200 fine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Erving is the second leading pilferer in the A.B.A.
From Time Magazine Archive
That noble discourse had been neglected by the generation to which it was addressed, had sunk into oblivion, and was at the mercy of every pilferer.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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