heist
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It was the Peanut Butter heist that won me over.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
“You know how in the spy thriller or the heist movie, you’re introduced to the crew at the beginning,” Obama wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The heist and subsequent search for the loot has gripped the Netherlands and regularly made headline news.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, county prosecutor John McKinney tapped into voter frustration with homeless encampments, a blighted downtown and general distrust of City Hall to pull off a last-minute heist of the second runoff spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
His logic was: The Mona Lisa heist was a refined crime.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Not since Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief” has there been a more charismatic and lovable “villain,” not to mention some pretty great heists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"She would do anything for her family - and she joins them as a way to protect them from themselves and the real danger that is involved in heists."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Two heists made in broad daylight present a scarier challenge for museums worn out by soup-throwing protesters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
The interface for the Archive looks like a set of old file cabinets that might have been heisted from an old-time bail bondsman’s office.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
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