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
On your way, keep an eye out for island foxes, once endangered, now plentiful and skilled in campsite food thievery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 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
Hardly encouraged by my first foray into thievery, I had decided that today was a begging day.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
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
The pleasure, however, of the visit was occasionally interrupted by the thieveries of many of the inhabitants.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
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
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