thieve

The Nats have led the majors in stolen bases all season, rejecting a trend: Never risk an out — and a chance to swing for the fences — to thieve one measly base.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2019

The scouting report is out, and they start to thieve second like it’s a jewelry store with a salamander for a security guard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2016

Four Women Simone’s interpretations of existing songs were so emphatic that other artists would often thieve her version rather than the original performer’s.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2016

The motherbirds thieve the air To appease them.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014

No one but Kunthi, coming stealthily by night to thieve from us what little we had, unashamed as she was and always had been.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Flock Safety claims over 5,000 law enforcement agencies use its license plate readers to help locate missing persons, catch thieves and identify suspicious vehicles.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Police are now probing how the thieves were able to enter the museum without triggering its alarms and who may have been responsible.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

He desires respectability, but savors the buzz, the camaraderie — the honor among thieves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Crypto accounts, bank accounts and even eBay accounts are also vulnerable to phishing scams where thieves send an email with a link and implore you to click.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

But once me and the cap’n got back to the hotel and he started planning how we was gonna catch the gang of thieves, I mostly forgot ’bout how rude these Yankees was.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Nate Craig, a vocal fan of Pilates classes featuring large glass windows, admits, “A couple of years ago I got my identity stolen … thieved … married is what I meant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

More dogs were thieved than any other pet by more than 1,000.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

You feel the presence of many, many others around you in here and you want to know who these people are who were thieved of identity when they were rendered collectibles.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020

Timbers said, “The theatrical engine of building the whole thing just from a person with a boom box—I have certainly thieved that many times in my own work.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

As the boys ran off with the thieved chocolate, Danny zipped his backpack shut again and ate his lunch in silence while the other kids sat in groups.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

When they aren’t thieving, bald eagles also scavenge from roadkill or help themselves to free food found in human garbage or at the town landfill.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Alcutt recently encountered a woman who was part of a suspected thieving group processing stolen copper in an encampment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

By contrast, the 1974 James Caan/Alan Arkin buddy cop movie “Freebie and the Bean” became one of her favorite movies, thanks to its thieving female impersonator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

Sentencing, the district judge said: "Seemingly, even the birds are not beyond your thieving grasp. You may conceive of these as just eggs but they are protected. This was a deplorable thing to do."

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024

I was glad that Yvonne kept bringing me more Lego trash bags or my production would’a really been slowed down by Rose’s thieving.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore