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filching

noun as in embezzlement

noun as in thievery

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Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

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Looters were filching desks, chairs and water tanks from state buildings.

Lowell had always gobbled up and repurposed his poetic influences; he’d already tested his relationship with Bishop by rewriting one of her poems and, later, filching a few lines from one of her letters.

As unemployment rates nationwide have sunk to record lows, filching workers — from kitchens and construction sites, warehouses and Walmarts, truck cabs and nursing homes — has become routine.

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

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