shoplift

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Recent Examples of shoplift In Kelly Reichardt’s quietly shattering drama, Michelle Williams plays a drifter stranded in Oregon who’s separated from her beloved dog, Lucy, after she’s arrested for shoplifting food. Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025 The 54-year-old reality TV personality, whose legal name is Mike Malin Breitner, was arrested at a CVS store in Southern California on Jan. 29 after allegedly shoplifting from a different CVS location nearby, Burbank Police Department confirmed to Entertainment Weekly on Friday. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2025 The Big Brother alum was arrested on Jan. 29 after allegedly shoplifting from multiple CVS stores in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, the Burbank Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. Liza Esquibias, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025 The same can be said for non-substance addictions, whereby generative AI can drive someone toward gambling disorders, eating disorders, exercising or dieting disorders, shoplifting disorders, video gaming disorders, social media use disorders, and so on. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoplift
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplift
Verb
  • April 17, 2025 For dessert, there was a huckleberry and poached pear croustillant with maple swirl ice cream.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Jilly’s prix fixe $55 menu consists of four options for an appetizer: frog legs, escargot, crispy goat cheese and poached pear salad.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Before Amber could join her brother, according to one witness, a man in a black pick-up truck pulled into the parking lot, snatched Amber off her bicycle and took off.
    Emily Krauser, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Then there is, in Walker’s view, the holy grail of art crime: The 13 works, including paintings by Rembrandt, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, snatched from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in a notorious 1990 heist.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Antetokounmpo finished the game by scoring 36 points, grabbing 13 rebounds, and blocking two shots.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Police said that once Davis left the apartment, the surviving 10-year-old quickly grabbed her baby brother, locked the door and called for help.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Lloris managed to get a strong hand to it but the ball still flew into the roof of the net — this one was rifled.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • As Max Muncy waved through strike three on an elevated fastball, Realmuto popped up from his crouch and rifled Taylor down.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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  • Attackers could seize on the pattern by identifying nonexistent packages that are repeatedly hallucinated.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Fifty years ago this week Communist forces seized the city of Saigon bringing an end to the Vietnam war.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Steelers’ draft picks Picks will be updated throughout the 2025 NFL Draft, April 24–26.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The toppings really make the dish here—pick your favorites!
    Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The tree stands tall now, shielding multigenerational families from the sun at the edge of the same square, where bright concentric circles under rustling garlands encourage romvong circular dance.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The near silences are fulsome: A light wind rustles a pine tree, and corn husks make that unmistakable scratching sound.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Miami, after a 37-45 NBA regular season wrought with chaos and controversy, hijacked by the Jimmy Butler drama and trade, has fed its fans late cause to hope, at least, if not quite believe yet.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2025
  • An American citizen was shot and killed by a passenger on Thursday during his attempt to hijack a plane in Belize.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025

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