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stealing

[stee-ling] / ˈsti lɪŋ /


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Earnings season kicks off Tuesday with big banks in focus, but tech is stealing the spotlight, with that sector set to continue selling off following an alarming slump in Korean chip stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

I don’t think my sister is stealing, and I don’t think she’s being outrageous.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

“It’s something that I like to say we’re stealing with pride,” he said in an interview Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

She added they were stealing photographers' livelihoods as well as possibly putting children at risk.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

They ran roughshod over the whole county—tearing down fences so the cows would get loose, helping themselves to everybody’s crops, and stealing the storekeeper blind.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

It was the Dodgers’ first game with three caught stealings since 2021, and it made Smith the first Dodgers catcher with three individually since Russell Martin in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025

Oller erased two runners on caught stealings he initiated, and the other was retired on a double-play grounder in the best outing of his young career.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

Hassell, the No. 8 overall pick in the 2020 draft, has hit .296 in Class A ball the last two seasons and has 57 stolen bases versus only nine caught stealings.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

He struggled on the basepaths last year with six caught stealings in 14 attempts, but he’s a perfect 5-for-5 this season after his four-steal weekend.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2022

We have seen that the irate Lebrun had a settled income of about a hundred and eighty pounds a-year, equal, with little pickings and stealings, to perhaps three hundred pounds at the present time.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various




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