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stealing

noun as in theft

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“The stealing has been going on a long time,” she wrote, her son’s lawsuit claims.

When it comes to electron-stealing, fluorine’s a downright bully.

When this happens, the atom doing the electron-stealing gets reduced.

The market makers ensure that there’s a good mix of vendors and that the sellers and buyers act ethically and legally—no stealing, cheating, or misrepresenting the quality or provenance of goods.

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Putting our own house in order might make it more difficult for Putin to destroy his since there’s no use stealing in Moscow what you can’t spend in London, Paris and New York.

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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

The story follows a down on his luck family man named Bill Scanlon (Wes Bentley), who takes to stealing after losing his job.

Back then, when partners of stars melted into the background, it was a barnstorming stealing of the show.

Zilch, what with Showtime's other steamy sex-heavy drama, The Affair, stealing its thunder.

In the real world, he said, a hacker is more likely interested in stealing records he can sell than in harming a patient.

If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.

At a late term of the Court of Sessions a man was brought up by a farmer, accused of stealing some ducks.

The crowd dispersed, disappointed; cheated out of their anticipated scene of an arrest for horse-stealing.

One of these leads past Charlecote, famous for Shakespeare's deer-stealing episode, but no longer open to the public.

He never threw away an inch, and his way of stealing foot by foot was worthy of any jockey.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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