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Recent Examples of shoplifter
The Hong Kong papers also talked for days about the shoplifter in a Dacron suit.
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Eileen Chang, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Under Chapter 168 of AB 2943, law enforcement’s authority to arrest shoplifters expanded.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 18 June 2025
The longtime lawman has been accused of personal indiscretions such as receiving a nude photo of a co-worker, and professional missteps including his deputies’ aggressive actions in pursuing shoplifters at a Target and killing their driver.
—Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
That has become a practice with some independent boutique owners that have been targeted by shoplifters in the past few years.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 May 2025
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Eileen Chang, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Under Chapter 168 of AB 2943, law enforcement’s authority to arrest shoplifters expanded.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 18 June 2025
The longtime lawman has been accused of personal indiscretions such as receiving a nude photo of a co-worker, and professional missteps including his deputies’ aggressive actions in pursuing shoplifters at a Target and killing their driver.
—Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
That has become a practice with some independent boutique owners that have been targeted by shoplifters in the past few years.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplifter
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
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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
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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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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An unidentified off-duty police officer and two family members were carjacked, and the carjacker suspect fled in the officer's personal vehicle.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
24 Aug. 2025
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Gill was waiting to pick up his wife from work when an armed carjacker opened fire in broad daylight.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
23 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
Noun
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In the short distance from Gaza to southern Israel, they were transformed in little time from conquered to conqueror, victim to perpetrator, detainee to abductor.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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She and the baby's father, her husband Jake Haro, were both interviewed by local TV station KTLA just hours later, and begged for the abductor to return their son.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Shoplifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoplifter. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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