filch

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

One piece they failed to filch, however, was the Dresden Green, an elaborate diamond hat pin crafted around an extremely rare, almond-shaped celadon-green diamond.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2020

The cause of the new public relations crisis is the disclosure last week of two new ways to filch data from the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 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

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

By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices — the joke is on you.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012

She snorts when she laughs, filches food from the pantry, just because she can, and runs free through the bar-infested woods.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

He who filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.'

From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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

He filched an old kettle and two lumps of sugar, just in case.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

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

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

Then they began filching stories from their real lives for the show.

From Slate ● May 29, 2012

For example, the fox is full of wit, and withall given wholly to filching for his prey.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower