thieve

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Recent Examples of thieve Across roughly two months, the cameras collected data — though some fell victim to storm water or thieving raccoons, Ivory said. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025 The case should therefore be taken away from Moro and given to an impartial ICAC-style commission—not in order to protect corrupt politicians or thieving construction bosses but for the sake of the rule of law and human rights, and to prevent prosecutions from turning into persecutions. Geoffrey Robertson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2017 Once a brilliant toymaker, Jeronicus Jangle (Forest Whitaker) has lost his notebook full of ideas thanks to his thieving former apprentice (a delightfully sinister Keegan-Michael Key). EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024 Which heaps further discredit on Keynes’s observation that governments thieve wealth stealthily with inflation. John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for thieve

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“Thieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thieve. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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