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a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses
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Recent Examples of pickpocket
The site has always been overcrowded, and it's become a mecca for pickpockets as tourists clamor to take a selfie in front of the iconic monument.
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Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.
—Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Taking inspiration from the spring 2026 runways—as well as Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lawrence—Sánchez Bezos embraced pickpocket styling, carrying her black Hermès Kelly unclasped.
—Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025
But that plan, worked up by Lord and Lady Davenport (Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston), gets complicated when a handsome pickpocket named Eric (Ben Radcliffe) mistakenly lands a job at the estate and sets his sights on Rose.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2025
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Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.
—Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Taking inspiration from the spring 2026 runways—as well as Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lawrence—Sánchez Bezos embraced pickpocket styling, carrying her black Hermès Kelly unclasped.
—Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025
But that plan, worked up by Lord and Lady Davenport (Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston), gets complicated when a handsome pickpocket named Eric (Ben Radcliffe) mistakenly lands a job at the estate and sets his sights on Rose.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
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Police have identified a suspect in the heist, though no arrests have been made and investigators are working to nail down exactly how the thief might have been able to access her vehicle keys, authorities said.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The thieves didn’t take any of their art, which was a relief, since that’s what is most precious to them.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Inside, Darwin Tirado-Sanchez, 22, sitting in the passenger seat and a 38-year-old man in the driver’s seat, were ordered at gunpoint to turn over their wallets and keys without turning around toward their robbers, prosecutors said in a court proffer of allegations.—
William Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Responding officers headed to the scene spotted two men matching the description of the robbers and arrested both in the area of the Sox-35th Red Line station around 15 minutes after the robbery, police said.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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The New York Times later reported that Bankman-Fried was placed in solitary confinement because the crypto swindler violated the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ rules.—
Andrew Zucker,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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But the fake ads include the swindler’s contact information instead of the real landlord’s.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
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In September 2023, the group was charged with violation of the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act, commonly known as a RICO case.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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When Ferrara was starting out, private investment in low-budget films was spurred by tax loopholes, a way for doctors, dentists, and racketeers to get rid of extra cash that would otherwise wind up in Uncle Sam’s grubby mitts.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The gangster drama began airing on BBC Two in the UK in 2013, and debuted on Netflix a year later.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2026
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The sequel finds the notorious gangster back in Birmingham in 1940, racing to save his son.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Feb. 2026
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The first pictures McCullin took were of hoodlums and down-and-outs, subjects that reflected his own hardscrabble background.—
Andrew Pulver,
Air Mail,
31 Jan. 2026
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But as Duterte’s father, Vicente, had increasingly gravitated toward Malacañang, his son hung out with the family bodyguards—and crafted the persona of a rough-talking bugoy, or hoodlum, in his native Bisayan tongue.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Ciri, unbeknowest to her surrogate ma and pa, is free of her Nilfgaardian captors and on the run with a band of adolescent ruffians, and perhaps figuring out how to take care of herself.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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When both young people meet their end the Baron saves Christina by putting Hans’ brain in Christina’s body, uniting their blurred identities in a joint thirst for revenge, creating a Gothic avenger who hunts down the aristocratic ruffians who ruined their happiness.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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In a season 3 teaser, Peter saves Suraj Sharma's Jay Batra from some thugs at a soccer stadium.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Feb. 2026
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Foucauld had later left the army to become a Trappist monk and had established himself as a missionary in Tamanrasset, Algeria, in the middle of the Sahara Desert; he was killed there by local thugs in 1916.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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