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
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
"Of course. The book keeper keeps it under lock and key. People filch them sometimes, you know. Do their own version. It hurts our box, then."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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