1
as in robbed
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep
the guy who tried to steal my car was sentenced to a year in jail
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as in snuck
to move about in a sly or secret manner
the teenagers were able to steal past a security guard and enter the fairgrounds without paying admission
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Recent Examples of stolen
The car rental company reported to authorities that the vehicles, worth more than $1 million, were stolen from its location at Syracuse Hancock International Airport between June and August.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Trump has accused Maduro of being an illegitimate president after an election that most independent observers believe was stolen.
—Richard Hall, Time, 25 Oct. 2025
Scammers often try to use credentials stolen from other breaches.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Another time brass vases were stolen, Rocchetta said.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
As for what was stolen from the iconic museum?
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
All stolen in less than seven minutes, from the world's most famous museum.
—NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
But it was apparently stolen from the owner during a demonstration for a prospective customer.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
By 2016, the attraction had outgrown the confines of the backyard, so the Bernal Scream set up in the parking lot of Westfield Oakridge Mall, where thousands of dollars’ worth of haunted house equipment was stolen just days before Halloween.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Trump has accused Maduro of being an illegitimate president after an election that most independent observers believe was stolen.
—Richard Hall, Time, 25 Oct. 2025
Scammers often try to use credentials stolen from other breaches.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Another time brass vases were stolen, Rocchetta said.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
As for what was stolen from the iconic museum?
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
All stolen in less than seven minutes, from the world's most famous museum.
—NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
But it was apparently stolen from the owner during a demonstration for a prospective customer.
—Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
By 2016, the attraction had outgrown the confines of the backyard, so the Bernal Scream set up in the parking lot of Westfield Oakridge Mall, where thousands of dollars’ worth of haunted house equipment was stolen just days before Halloween.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stolen
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Both men are suspected of having been part of a team alleged to have robbed the Louvre last week.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
26 Oct. 2025
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Less than a year later, Brown pulled a gun on a man in the middle of the day at a Charlotte apartment complex and robbed him of his cellphone and $450, according to court records.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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The WormGPT name itself has been hijacked by other dark AI models as well, including keanu-WormGPT, which utilizes a jailbroken version of X’s Grok.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
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Our amygdala is overactive, our nervous systems are fried and our dopamine cycles are hijacked by short-term stimuli.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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When Mumy was just a kid, Lockhart snuck him and his TV sister Cartwright into shows at the Whisky a Go Go during the height of the 1960s psychedelic scene.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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This is not the first time public art has been pilfered in San Jose.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Every detail is pilfered from the lives of people around me, or from my own.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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Shares of Honeywell have slipped 4% this year.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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In 2023, a statue of a warrior riding a horse that symbolizes the sister city relationship between San Jose and Pune, India, was swiped from Guadalupe River Park.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been under glass since the 1950s, but not so in 1911, when Vincenzo Perrugia, a former museum staffer, hid in a cupboard overnight, then swiped what is now the world’s most famous painting and walked out with it under his coat.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
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In early August, for example, NABU and SAPO exposed a criminal group of political, military, and business figures that had misappropriated funds allocated by local authorities for the purchase of drones and electronic warfare systems.—
DARIA KALENIUK,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Sep. 2025
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She is also accused of misappropriated the victim’s money at least 45 times from June 2021 through November 2022, Gerace added.—
Fox19 staff,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Aug. 2025
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The move marks a dramatic break from the government's process to fund the military, which relies on funding appropriated from Congress.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Supporters estimate the tax could generate approximately $100 billion in revenue, which could begin being appropriated in 2027.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Stolen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stolen. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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