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Examples of purloin in a Sentence
the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale
Recent Examples of purloin from the Web
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Enlisting one of the diner's regular customers, Benny (Azim Rizk), a mechanic who has the hots for her, as an accomplice, Priscilla manages to get away with purloining the loot.
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Moreover, Trump’s base clearly loved the idea of Russians purloining and publishing information that would damage Clinton.
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People used to laugh at my suggestion that computer viruses were being planted and user info was being purloined by the same companies who sell us security software.
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By happenstance or not, in the days and weeks after the meeting with the Russian lawyer, emails purloined from Democratic computers were made public, which investigators tied to Russian hacking.
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In other works, Parker has purloined objects, squashed them, melted them down and recast them, scratched them, and fired bullets at them.
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The attacks on Friday are likely to raise significant questions about whether the growing number of countries developing and stockpiling cyberweapons can avoid having those same tools purloined and turned against their own citizens.
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The petition to the high court comes from a San Antonio man whom the RIAA accused of using the Kazaa file-sharing program to purloin its members’ music in 2006.
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As his frustration grew, the mysterious trickle from WikiLeaks of the Democratic National Committee’s and John Podesta’s purloined e-mails were continuing in a deliberate, steadily ominous flow.
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purloin Synonyms
Synonym Discussion of purloin
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- steal jewels
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- stole a look at the gifts
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- pilfered from his employer
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- filched an apple from the tray
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- printed a purloined document
PURLOIN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of purloin for English Language Learners
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: to take (something that belongs to someone else)
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