purloined

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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

The film for which he won the purloined medal, “Kadaisi Vivasayi” or “The Last Farmer,” was a commentary on the difficulties of farming in India.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2024

But the moment passed, and in 1949 the Soviet Union exploded its own plutonium-based atomic bomb — largely by re-creating Hanford 1,000 miles east of Moscow using blueprints purloined from the Manhattan Project.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

He eluded an FBI manhunt for two weeks while he supplied copies of the purloined report to more than a dozen other major newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023

But while the purloined guitar presented no ownership problem, his remaining property did.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote