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as in pilfering

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verb

present participle of filch
as in stealing
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep too hungry to wait until the party had started, he filched a cookie from the buffet table when no one was looking

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  1. pilfering
  2. stealing
  3. shoplifting
Noun
  • In the second novel of the Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series, Chakraborty sets her pirate protagonist out onto the high seas for some perilous pilfering after being dragged into her partner’s problems.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
Definition of pilfering
Verb
  • The complaint says Elmi and the three others then began stealing victims' identities to bill Medicaid in their name.
    — Adam Duxter, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • A question of piracy After book authors accused the company of stealing their work to train its Claude AI chatbot, Judge Alsup broke the accusations down into two components and addressed them separately.
    — TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of stealing
Noun
  • Those local leaders who came in as Democrats five, six, seven years ago wanted to make shoplifting okay, kept the schools closed too long, they got repudiated by voters.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike shoplifting, which is clearly transactional and morally coded, hotel theft exists in a fuzzier psychological space.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of shoplifting
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