SHOPLIFT Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

shoplift

verb

Definition of shoplift

as in to poach

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Recent Examples of shoplift The majority, 430, of the crimes reported in the Southeastern District have been shoplifting incidents. — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 16 May 2026 In Big Mistakes, Levy and Taylor Ortega play siblings who shoplift a necklace from a jewelry store to give to their grandmother on her deathbed, only to be blackmailed by the mobsters that run the place into a series of increasingly stupid and dangerous errands. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026 Investigations and reporting have described a cycle in which people struggling with addiction shoplift goods from stores across Los Angeles and sell them to vendors around the park to obtain money for drugs. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026 Her future became clearer in 1991 after a friend, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, was shot and killed by a grocer who witnesses said accused the girl of trying to shoplift a bottle of orange juice. — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shoplift

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Cook salmon skin-side down for crispiness and avoid soft methods like poaching.

— Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
According to Portillo, Ditka’s team had poached one of his managers.

— John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of poach

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An urge strong enough to pull me away from the kitchen, grab my computer, and steal a table outside to scribble out my thoughts.

— Samantha Rees, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026
The video then shows the deputy grabbing the wallet and opening it, showing Bolduc and the bodycam the contents.

— Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of grab

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With four minutes until penalties, Spain venture forward, Cesc Fabregas slips in Iniesta, who rifles it home to win the World Cup.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
His second attempt rifled across the box, just over a defender’s head and onto the foot of Jhon Arias near the back post.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026

Definition of rifle

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My mother picks me up off the floor, pulling me across the hall, into my bedroom, into bed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Cellphone camera footage broadcast by CBS Los Angeles shows the snake on a beach at night and someone trying to use what appears to be the base of a palm frond to pick it up and toss it back into the water.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of pick

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And, for one entire episode, a gentle breeze rustles the branches of a weeping willow as an inaudible conversation takes place nearby.

— Josh Gondelman, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
The tree still stood, waiting, but no one visited, no one entered the world under her strong branches, her rustling leaves.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of rustle

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Perhaps the biggest was that an HBO Max Reddit account was hijacked and began directing users to an app that was actually infostealer malware in disguise.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
That debate accelerated in early September after Reuters reported that OpenAI’s agents hijacked a dormant German wiki site this spring.

— Harshita Mary Varghese, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of hijack

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