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stole

[stohl] / stoʊl /


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

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

“The Yellow Line is a quiet thief. It stole my land, my work and everything I spent my life building. How can you replace 45 years of work?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

Then there’s the recent hooliganism of an OpenAI model, which escaped a testing environment, stole credentials of multiple private-company servers, then burglarized one to steal the answer to a problem-solving challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

“Unfortunately, someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week,” Sean Berney, a director for original film at Netflix, wrote in a June 25 email, according to the lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

"If Gregory stole the Cinderella slippers and put them in his dance bag, the rhinestone could have fallen off one of the slippers."

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

More than 2 pounds of honor cords, pins, stoles and medallions — a stash rivaling that of a supreme Allied commander — crashed to the dirt outside the 18-year-old’s Adelanto home.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

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

Actually, their tour of the Fontainebleau’s gaudy premises went unnoticed, amid the men striding about in Bermuda shorts of candy-striped raw silk, and the women wearing bathing suits and mink Answer 201 stoles simultaneously.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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