stole

Example Sentences

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Higgs was fired and the museum sued him in 2024, claiming he stole or damaged more than 1,800 pieces in its collection.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

You did that, and now your nose is understandably out of joint because you don’t know what happened to your 20% tip and you are afraid the restaurant stole it.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

The disruption at Instructure follows a breach disclosed last week in which a hacker group claimed it stole hundreds of millions of records tied to students and employees at roughly 9,000 schools in the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

This is significant in large part because Musk has sought to express to the jury that Altman and Brockman effectively stole a charity by turning it into a for-profit company.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Late one night those boys and girls, led by Buddy, crawled in the schoolteacher’s window, stole his trousers, and sewed the legs together.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney