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Noun
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The technology promises efficiency and fairness, but travelers are discovering that AI often acts more like a digital pickpocket than an impartial assistant.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025 -
Because Paris is a magical place, Belly’s pickpocket takes her backpack directly to a rave without even bothering to open it.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Back at the Dunwoody Police Department, the cops are unable to identify that shoplifter.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some have called the city lax for failing to stop shoplifters, cart scofflaws and other signs of crime and deterioration around the full-service Midway grocer, but the St. Paul Police Department reported this week that officers made more than 500 visits to the 1440 University Ave.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
22 July 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
Noun
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Had a kidnapper try to pull me inside his van at a bus stop in Arizona.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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During the rescue, one of the doctors is fatally shot by a kidnapper, who is later killed by the French team.—
Time,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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 18 Sep. 2025.
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