thievery
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Nestlé said it had publicized the incident with humor to raise awareness around the more serious issue of thievery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he said if ministers go ahead with plans to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying, they would be "committing theft, thievery on a high scale".
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
In the last few years, though, homeless encampments have multiplied in the surrounding streets and thievery has become so relentless that the brothers are ready to give up and sell their business.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
See the recent “Arcane,” the Netflix series based on the “League of Legends” video game whose debut episode had a breezy camaraderie that echoed the magic and thievery of the long-standing role-playing game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
Ever since the Kerkopes had stolen it in Bologna, he was scared he might get belt-jacked again, though he doubted any monster was as good at thievery as those dwarfs.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good name for her sake.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries as a symbol of the envy that made him a thief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortune, which will not suffer him to be honest, makes his thieveries, in her extremity of whim, to be but benefits for others.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
"We'll pass up the petty thieveries, for the present, and look a little higher," he said gravely.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
Another phase of their adventure with the shopping district thieveries turned up in the woods and contributed greatly to the excitement of their experience.
From The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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