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

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

They arranged to meet 10 days later so that Sheehan could review a set of the purloined papers that Ellsberg now had stored at his brother-in-law’s Cambridge apartment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023

But remember when Arondir described Theo’s purloined sword-hilt as a kind of key?

From New York Times • Sep. 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