purloin

It is the first to show some T cells purloin a protein called CD20 from the surface of B cells, he adds.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2022

A series of turns leads Bunton, during an ill-conceived trip to London to make his case against the BBC license fee to Parliament and the media, to purloin the Wellington portrait from the National Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

Nandor immediately uses his new position to purloin a magical cloak to help him hit on the front desk clerk at his gym.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2021

Or, to purloin a line from his novel: Are we all characters in a Beckett play directed by Sartre?

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2018

He hesitated, then stomped back the way he’d come, stopping to purloin a clean shirt from another cabin.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

With a fee that she purloins from a church collection plate, she implores him for help and he agrees, as he learns more about this young girl’s challenging childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

He survives, and in the chaos purloins a painting that his mother loved and with which he becomes obsessed.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019

Desperate to buy her father out of debtor’s prison, she purloins a copy of his thesis and sets out to win the Great God Contest herself.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2015

The best exemplar of the species is probably E. W. Hornung’s Raffles, who was educated at the best schools, plays cricket for England, moves among the upper classes and discreetly purloins their jewels.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012

He was feeling for Bean the contempt which a really distinguished safe-blower is said to feel for the cheap thief who purloins bottles of milk from basement doorways in the gray of dawn.

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Not long afterward, another male red fox entered the scene of the crime; the purloined repast had been his.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Stealthily, from its roost on the ceiling, one bat reached out and purloined his sun hat.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

Her goal: to use the purloined flower to create a game-changing hybrid rose, win the famed Bagatelle International New Rose Contest and salvage her business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

“You know, they say that Atlanta influences everything,” Williams told the crowd, purloining a phrase often used to describe Atlanta’s paramount place in African American and broader American culture.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022

At one British university, students were purloining towels from their dispensers, so Sofidel provided dispensers with locks.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2019

One of the rare politicians who paid a price for purloining was Joe Biden, whom I profiled in the magazine last week.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2014

But he was a prudent young man, and perfectly aware of the consequences of purloining correspondence; and besides, there was Dolly to be reckoned with—she alone had seen the thing as yet.

From The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey