purloin
Example Sentences
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PARIS—French authorities said they’ve detained four more people in connection to the Louvre heist, including a man suspected of being the only thief to remain at large after purloining the nation’s crown jewels.
Add to that the political convulsions in Haiti from the still-unsolved assassination last month of President Jovenel Moïse, plus the impoverished Caribbean country’s own history of purloined, misused or missing aid.
From New York Times
We’re still learning the extent to which President Trump tried to strong-arm the Justice Department into helping him purloin the election.
From New York Times
That’s when hackers began purloining information about specific orders from online portal systems used by companies bidding to transport products.
From Los Angeles Times
The purloined pistachios were grown by the Touchstone Pistachio Company, which found that tens of thousands of nuts were missing in an audit this month.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
