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The signs warning visitors to look out for pickpockets are unnerving but necessary.—
Elaine Sciolino,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2025 -
At the train station, she's again treated with kindness and respect by the ticket salesman, who advises her on the safest way to travel, and warns her about the city's pickpockets and predators.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
9 Mar. 2025
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For example, California’s Proposition 47 raised the felony threshold from $450 to $950, emboldening shoplifters by dramatically reducing potential penalties.—
James Fotis,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2025
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Chains are willing to accept lower sales that result from locking up some products rather than lose the products to shoplifters, which hits their profits, analysts say.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents: Alexander Pantages, the millionaire theater magnate convicted of raping a 17-year-old dancer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Nov. 2023
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She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
8 May 2018
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After her emergence, Dawn gets saddled with tedious subplots: a kleptomaniac streak, bad boyfriends, and an overeager tendency to put herself in danger.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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The stigma kleptomaniacs face can leave them feeling ashamed, embarrassed or afraid to seek support.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2024
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“Pilferer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilferer. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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