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purloined

adjective as in stolen

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But it also enabled Morris to play with his obsessiveness with history, as seen in Kevin and the gang’s confrontation with the Earl of Sandwich over, of all things, their decision to dine on a purloined pineapple.

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Moreover, despite what prosecutors alleged in the indictment, the plea deal stipulates that there is no evidence Falaschi directly profited from the misconduct, but instead that he used the purloined water to dilute salty and toxic farm runoff, “which helped protect farmland and improve water quality in the San Joaquin River.”

Four middle-aged suspects were arrested in Southern California this week when officers found them in possession of roughly $300,000 worth of purloined Lego sets, according to the California Highway Patrol.

He now plays Arthur, an Englishman in 1980s Italy with a mysterious gift for finding Etruscan tombs, which he and his crew then rob, selling the purloined artifacts to an antiquities dealer.

And in an increasingly atomized world, it turns out that working together to gather photos and videos like they are so many purloined monkeys is fun, while the feeling of having access to better information than other people, or even uncovering a secret, is deeply satisfying.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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