heist 1 of 2

as in theft
an instance of theft it was the largest jewelry heist in the city's history

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verb

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Recent Examples of heist
Noun
Amidst the chaos of an evacuation, a gang of criminals begins an audacious heist. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 The story begins as a heist but evolves into a duel between artists, one at the end of his career, the other desperate to forge her own. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
And Bannon got directly to business, spinning a tale to his viewers of Democrats plotting to heist the 2024 election. Tess Owen, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024 Nesbit scoffs at the proposal, citing the difficulties of heisting perhaps a metric tonne of nuclear material. IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for heist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heist
Noun
  • The tactics have transcended low-level website defacements and data theft too and now extend to more destructive attacks on systems such as energy grids, gas pipelines, and undersea cables.
    Brian Walsh, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Gonzalez-Rasalas was charged with murder, desecrating a body and auto theft in a gruesome 2023 Easter Sunday homicide.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bots would impersonate beneficiaries, using dates of birth and other information that can be found on the internet, to try to change the beneficiaries’ bank-routing information and steal their benefits.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Through the first week of September, Soto stole three bases.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Heist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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