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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 sneaked
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
Holter, who lives about a mile away, remembers a suitcase stolen off a porch and a bicycle swiped.
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Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
Officers determined the eagle figure was stolen from the monument located near a statue honoring Dietz.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Sparks and bullets fly when these opposites are partnered to track down a billion-dollar cache of deadly opioids stolen from the vault of a multinational pharmaceutical company that threaten to flood the streets of Chicago.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Arizona woman gets stolen Chihuahua back Nearly a year after her dog was stolen, a former Scottsdale resident was reunited with her Chihuahua, Jax.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2026
The driver entered the store, but their friend had stayed behind and was still in the car when it was stolen, Wright said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
License plates were stolen, sometimes from people’s own driveways.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
During the church’s restoration in the 1930s, the bell was stolen.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
The court last year narrowed the scope of the case, finding that the idea for Musero’s script wasn’t stolen.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
Officers determined the eagle figure was stolen from the monument located near a statue honoring Dietz.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Sparks and bullets fly when these opposites are partnered to track down a billion-dollar cache of deadly opioids stolen from the vault of a multinational pharmaceutical company that threaten to flood the streets of Chicago.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Arizona woman gets stolen Chihuahua back Nearly a year after her dog was stolen, a former Scottsdale resident was reunited with her Chihuahua, Jax.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2026
The driver entered the store, but their friend had stayed behind and was still in the car when it was stolen, Wright said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
License plates were stolen, sometimes from people’s own driveways.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
During the church’s restoration in the 1930s, the bell was stolen.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
The court last year narrowed the scope of the case, finding that the idea for Musero’s script wasn’t stolen.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stolen
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New York Police Department Police said that, less than an hour later, the three women robbed a Gorjana store one block over on North 6th Street.—
Riley Rourke,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Similarly, the movie’s just desserts are completely bland, since they’re constantly robbed of real stakes when folks being dismembered can just walk it off and try again.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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The prosecutor said Serafini snuck into his in-laws’ Homewood residence on the west shore of Lake Tahoe while nobody was home.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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My brother Mike knew a maintenance engineer who snuck me in to Seals & Crofts’ studio.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
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The incident started when Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome Hill robbed a Coral Gables jewelry store, then hijacked Ordoñez’s UPS truck 2 miles away and took him with them on a high-speed chase into Broward County that ended at a crowded Miramar intersection.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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Hill and Alexander then hijacked the UPS truck driven by Ordóñez — with the driver still in it.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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No outside agencies or businesses will be able to directly hire off-duty police officers through the scheduling platform RollKall after police say a man impersonating law enforcement and killed by SWAT officers earlier this month slipped through the cracks.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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In a September Gallup poll, support had slipped to 47%, with another 47% calling such research morally wrong.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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Many of the things that happen in this film have happened for real, and they’re pilfered from actual F1 events.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
1 Mar. 2026
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As when just standing in the Mingus Quick Stop parking lot and squinting down the street at lifting dust while overhearing from within the most mysterious conversation about missing Little Debbie Honey Buns—not stolen, gradually pilfered, but just missing.—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Your duty to intervene increases with the value of the object and the likelihood it will be purloined.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Holter, who lives about a mile away, remembers a suitcase stolen off a porch and a bicycle swiped.—
Celina Tebor,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
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The Monrovia Police Department said the woman suffered minor injuries after the bear swiped at her leg and scratched the back of her knee on Saturday.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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There was the safety dummy that was misappropriated by impatient commuters.—
Cierra Morgan,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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In connection with his sentencing, prosecutors told the court that Girardi had misappropriated the Lion Air funds.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
5 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Stolen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stolen. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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