filch

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

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

He could walk to school, cutting through a field where he would sometimes filch a ripe melon for an after-school snack.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"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

Neoptolemus, at the instance of Ulysses, filches from Philoctetes the bow and arrows, but being overcome by his nobler nature restores them.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith

With “Avalon,” it’s as though Zink glanced at the mundane little formula that recurs throughout her press clippings and filched it for a plot.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

Philharmonic to cellist Peter Stumpf after it had been filched from the front porch of his Los Feliz home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

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

He knew a hundredfold of me compared to what I had filched from him.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

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

Is it the runaway merchant, the defaulting bank clerk, the filching commissary, that can say shame to one whose crime stands higher in the scale of offence?

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever