filch

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

The 14-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges Xiaoqing Zheng of Niskayuna, N.Y., and Zhaoxi Zhang of China’s Liaoning province teamed up to filch millions of dollars’ worth of General Electric’s aviation trade secrets.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019

Forays like these increasingly vex trade hawks in America, who fear that China will filch its cutting-edge technology.

From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018

The window of opportunity is rapidly closing on them: Every new story idea the duo comes up with is already claimed by Shakespeare, a shameless plagiarist always eager to filch an idea from Nigel's notebook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017

He’d head up to Connecticut and filch Fred in the middle of the night.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

"But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

Who steals my verse steals trash, for, soothly,      he who runs may read, But he who filches from me Bartlett leaves      me poor indeed.

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019

Now, this could be because they’re lost in the mail — or filched by a letter carrier who’s really interested in bauxite — but I have a nagging suspicion they never existed at all.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2018

“I filched ’em from your cott before the burning.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020

The Tribune reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: Social Security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2017

She tackles him after he is caught filching some grub, prompting my favorite admonishment of the episode, and maybe the entire series thus far.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2015

He had no thought of filching Jim's secret from him.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler