Verb
a professional burglar was able to heist a box of jewelry from the safe in the closet Noun
it was the largest jewelry heist in the city's history
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Verb
Nesbit scoffs at the proposal, citing the difficulties of heisting perhaps a metric tonne of nuclear material.—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2024 Plus, the Wall Street Journal told us to save money by skipping breakfast, and a man in the UK heisted thousands of dollars worth of Cadbury Creme Eggs.—Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 17 Feb. 2023
Noun
Up next, he’ll be seen on Peacock’s Poker Face, with additional roles in 20th’s heist thriller Eenie Meanie and the indies The Razor’s Edge and Our Hero Balthazar, opposite Tommy Lee Jones and Noah Centineo, respectively.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024 In the 1968 film, Dunaway played a private investigator caught up in an affair with the wealthy mastermind behind a bank heist, played by another '60s heartthrob, McQueen.—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for heist
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