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

The task of finding the missing millions and those who purloined it falls to May de Silva, the country's Anti-Corruption Commissioner.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022

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

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote