pilfer
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Forcing social media platforms to pay for the news and information they pilfer and monetize seems a quite modest and reasonable step.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
The company says it’s beefing up security protocols to make it harder for hackers to use stolen credentials or access tools to pilfer data.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024
There's never a need to pilfer through your cabinets, to be knocked over in a cascade of plastic storage containers à la those decades old infomercials, or to haphazardly use a cumbersome espresso maker.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022
Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said the scheme to pilfer the fund, known as 1MDB, was “massive in its scale” and “brazen in its execution.”
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022
Some of the customs, indeed, of these heroic friends were rather unpleasant, they were ill-mannered enough to pilfer, and at their night quarters it was plainly perceptible that they were not clean.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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