thief

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Recent Examples of thief Black Cat Joining the cast in season 2 is Black Cat, a jewelry thief who loves anything shiny. Sarah Scott, Parents, 30 May 2025 Here, Josh O’Connor plays J.B. Mooney (what a name!), an art thief who falls down a hole of his own digging, as a poorly hatched job to rip off a series of Arthur Dove abstract paintings from a fictional Massachusetts museum sends his private and family lives careening out of his grasp. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 May 2025 The film features our beloved returning team members (Luther, Benji, and Ilsa) as well as new faces like the enigmatic thief Grace (Hayley Atwell); Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin who knew Ethan in his pre-IMF life; and Denlinger (Cary Elwes), the Director of National Intelligence. Will Harris, EW.com, 23 May 2025 In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (2023), Atwell made her debut as Grace, a thief with questionable loyalties who becomes Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) new ally. Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for thief
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thief
burglar
Noun
  • Samson realizes that arresting speculators and burglars on behalf of the Bolsheviks will not bring back the stability of his middle-class, prerevolutionary youth.
    Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
  • In 2020, burglars crept into his game-farm, slit open a leather sofa, and disappeared with bundles of undeclared U.S. dollars—leaving the head of state, a Black farmer, both a victim of crime and a symbol of murky governance.
    Sizwe Mpofu Walsh, Time, 23 May 2025

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“Thief.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thief. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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