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

Hannah Foust, founder of DeFlock Carrollton, said the cameras give police surveillance power well in excess of what’s needed to stop car thieves.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

On Thursday, the director of navel information, Capt Abiodun Folorunsho, warned thieves there was "no hiding place" from the navy, which patrols the waterways and coastal areas of the Niger Delta.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Australian police said Wednesday they were on the hunt for thieves who made off with hundreds of thousands of oysters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

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

The seeds were there—not to make the case that Bankman-Fried was innocent or a victim of circumstance, but that he was the type of thieving fraud worthy of some extra consideration.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2024

Judges found the accused guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, spurred on by a campaign by the French rapper Booba against "thieving influencers".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024

One might fear for Rufus, the thieving, simple shepherd, if his path crossed theirs!

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks