purloin

Example Sentences

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That's why he has to purloin someone else's work in order to finish off his novel.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023

So you have this old-ass opera being mounted in an all-but-abandoned art palace, on the one hand; and this guy, on the other, using state of-the-art technology to purloin the singing.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

It is the first to show some T cells purloin a protein called CD20 from the surface of B cells, he adds.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2022

A series of turns leads Bunton, during an ill-conceived trip to London to make his case against the BBC license fee to Parliament and the media, to purloin the Wellington portrait from the National Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021

He hesitated, then stomped back the way he’d come, stopping to purloin a clean shirt from another cabin.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo