filch
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The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
He would filch it if I wasn’t around.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2020
Senior advisers filch documents from his desk to prevent him from issuing rash orders and try to ignore or at least slow-walk those that are issued.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018
“I am forever grateful to them,” says Georgette Ioup of the immigrants who renovated her home in the Gentilly neighbourhood—though the police, and unscrupulous contractors who sometimes filch workers’ wages, have been less hospitable.
From Economist • Aug. 20, 2015
“Shipwrecks and cannibals. Does that ring any bells, Miss Lumley? I know you filch books from my library sometimes; don’t deny it.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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