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thievery

[thee-vuh-ree] / ˈθi və ri /


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Nestlé said it had publicized the incident with humor to raise awareness around the more serious issue of thievery.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

Speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he said if ministers go ahead with plans to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying, they would be "committing theft, thievery on a high scale".

From BBC May 18, 2025

That incident occurred at the start of the Fourth of July weekend, similar to the Easter thievery at the GardaWorld property.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2024

In the last few years, though, homeless encampments have multiplied in the surrounding streets and thievery has become so relentless that the brothers are ready to give up and sell their business.

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

Hardly encouraged by my first foray into thievery, I had decided that today was a begging day.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The crisis is achieved when the Mayor's thieveries threaten to reflect on his daughter, but there is a boy who loves her and who is able to protect the Mayor's good name for her sake.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries as a symbol of the envy that made him a thief.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We'll pass up the petty thieveries, for the present, and look a little higher," he said gravely.

From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde

Nor can we at this distant day blame them very much or wax so indignant as did their master over their thieveries.

From George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth

Another phase of their adventure with the shopping district thieveries turned up in the woods and contributed greatly to the excitement of their experience.

From The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock




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