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Noun
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Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026 -
Chic Travel Bag A chic travel bag that doubles as a pickpocket deterrent?—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Jan. 2026
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Roseville police have announced the arrest of 82 people and the recovery of $14,200 following a retail theft crackdown last week, part of a broader regional push targeting holiday-season shoplifters.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 Dec. 2025
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The sci-fi comedy follows a Paige, Keke Palmer and Naomi Ackie as a crew of boosters (aka professional shoplifters/equal opportunists), who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
13 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents: Alexander Pantages, the millionaire theater magnate convicted of raping a 17-year-old dancer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Nov. 2023
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She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
8 May 2018
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Advertisement Colman Domingo plays a radio DJ in Dead Man's Wire, the only person the kidnapper will talk to.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
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The parks department has even posted signs on the beach warning visitors about Cecil’s kleptomaniac habits.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
7 Aug. 2025
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The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
30 May 2025
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“Pilferer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilferer. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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