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

Her backers see in her fierce loyalty and admire her eternal hunt for wage thieves to sue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Netflix executive said it would probably be sold “for scrap” since the thieves didn’t have a password.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“They’ve taken everything,” Denis said, adding: “These aren’t high-schoolers. It’s thieves coming from all the projects, all the banlieues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Within months" of a car being launched, thieves can develop targeted tools to steal it, it says.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The cows could graze at the bottom, and I could keep a lookout for thieves or wild animals.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

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

“The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town,” Nelson wrote late last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

Nick is bedeviled by his thieving foes, fascinated by them, and now has nothing to lose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

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

Yet the thieving must be stopped, and there was only himself to stop it.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw