thievery

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

Sir Elton, in an interview with the BBC, compared it to "committing theft, thievery on a high scale".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

SAG-AFTRA has already warned that AI models are built on the backs of countless human performances, without consent or compensation — which of course is not true innovation but a kind of creative thievery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People’s Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

"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

It is that troop of beggars; bringing their tricks and their thieveries they are to the Kinvara fair.

From The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays by Lady Gregory

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