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thieve

verb as in steal

Weak match

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Is thieving really the best a resourceful ex-soldier can do, though?

He was shot and stabbed on several occasions and killed a thieving female motel owner who ambushed him.

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Nick is bedeviled by his thieving foes, fascinated by them, and now has nothing to lose.

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“Learn how to thieve constructively — for the struggle,” Colin scolds him when Tony is naïvely caught up in a bungled shoplifting caper.

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Milei, who ran against “thieving politicians,” has run into resistance from Argentina’s combustible Congress, which he calls “the rat’s nest.”

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