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  • past tense form of steal.
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stole

[stohl] / stoʊl /


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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 Dodgers pulled away for good in the seventh after Ohtani singled, then stole second, and Freeman brought him home with a single to right.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The Ramones eventually retired because of interpersonal issues: Johnny stole Joey’s girlfriend.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Bush, 48, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, stole up to £12,000 from charities and sold fake funeral plans.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

“One of your players stole my lucky mitt!”

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Protesters, some wearing clerical stoles draped over their shoulders, knelt while singing hymns and reciting the Lord’s Prayer in frigid conditions before being handcuffed and led away, video showed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Around their necks, they all too appropriately wear stoles that read: “Fight Poverty, Not the Poor” and “Jesus Was Homeless.”

From Salon Jul. 21, 2025

But Francis seemed energized by his visit to the Rebibbia prison, where he was given a basket of vegetables grown in the prison garden as well as two liturgical stoles embroidered by the inmates.

From Seattle Times Mar. 28, 2024

During the commencement ceremony for UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology he sat between the neat rows of undergraduates clad in black robes, blue-and-gold stoles shining under the lights of school’s basketball arena.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2022

I’d found images of women wearing snug-fitting cheongsams styled with scarves, stoles, jackets, and flowing robes.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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