pilfered

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Pilfered items are routinely offered on internet sales platforms including EBay and Facebook Marketplace, according to Lego dealers and other experts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

Here we are, one Senate hearing and two policy changes later Pilfered documents are unquestionably part of the journalistic tradition.

From The Verge • Oct. 30, 2020

Bounty, Pilfered is made of over 1000 pieces of ocean plastic removed from beaches of Alaska, Greece, Hawaii, Costa Rica and the Gulf of Mexico.

From Time • Jun. 8, 2016

Pilfered dabs of R.&B., show tunes, rock and rap recombine until identifying whatever you think you’re hearing becomes its own sport.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Pilfered half-crowns, or perhaps sovereigns, kept back from collected accounts; or, in domestic service, pledged spoons and forks, are frequently at the bottom of the betting transactions of these 'noble sportsmen.'

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by Chambers, William