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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
The film follows 11-year-old Caroline (Johnson), a clever, sharp-eyed girl navigating a life of excitement and peril as a shoplifter with her mom Jocelyn (Williams).
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 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
The film follows 11-year-old Caroline (Johnson), a clever, sharp-eyed girl navigating a life of excitement and peril as a shoplifter with her mom Jocelyn (Williams).
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplifter
Noun
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Afterwards, walk through the dazzling Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, pausing to admire the glass dome and beautiful mosaic floors (but beware of pickpockets).—
Laura Itzkowitz,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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From scrunchies that secretly double as drink covers to zipper clips that stop pickpockets from opening your backpack, these viral finds prove that travel safety doesn’t have to be cumbersome or expensive.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After the woman brought Borges to the kitchen, the mother grabbed a knife and confronted the female kidnapper.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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Although all signs point to the woman's lecherous boss as her kidnapper, Morgan is convinced the Game Maker is ultimately behind the crime.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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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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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
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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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Here's another exercise to intensely open up the hip through hip abductor motion and engage the glutes.—
Mallory Creveling,
Health,
17 Sep. 2025
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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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“Shoplifter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoplifter. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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