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Meanings of theft in English
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Examples for "steal"
Examples for "steal"
1
Greed often causes people to steal and pilfer for no good reason.
2
With the current drought, there was no water to steal this year.
3
Its stated aim: to steal cultivation and sale away from organised crime.
4
Switzerland's finest will settle for bettering CSKA's result to steal second spot.
5
They said Beasley wanted to rob his victims and steal their identities.
1
Second case was four men who were arrested for stealing a car.
2
He remains in custody, accused of stealing assets in a different case.
3
He was sentenced to 12 years on charges of stealing state secrets.
4
But no rule covers it. Whip-stealing is not in racing's rule book?
5
Bellerive said the case was stealing attention from the plight of Haitians.
1
In her body, she knew fear; morally, the thieving felt like reparation.
2
BEE has crippled South Africa more than the thieving politicians ever could.
3
There was one final check to stop anyone thieving the Empire's loot.
4
For ten years I worked for a succession of brilliant, thieving scumbags.
5
Even before Creeley became aware of his thieving, Driver made him uncomfortable.
1
The Bangladesh heist led financial institutions around the globe to bolster security.
2
King of thieves is that increasingly common thing, the senior heist movie.
3
Sometimes, however, if we got shorthanded I'd go on the heist myself.
4
There is nothing conventional about either bank heist or bank heist film.
5
UPDATE 1-For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?
1
Garaventa pleaded guilty in July to grand larceny and falsifying business records.
2
After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
3
In other words, the theft of five thousand dollars is grand larceny.
4
In July, Margulies was found guilty of grand larceny and other charges.
5
This sharecropping in the South is grand larceny on a grand scale.
1
This cannot be achieved while you remain imprisoned on charges of thievery.
2
Later, over cigarettes and coffee, Perry returned to the subject of thievery.
3
There'd been a great to do when the staff discovered the thievery.
4
Everywhere people spoke of rampant thievery, highway robbery; endless fires burned everywhere.
5
And there was more than a little thievery and brawling and rioting.
1
He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment.
2
Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.
3
Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.
4
Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.
5
His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.
Usage of theft in English
1
The good news: Car theft dropped 22 percent last year, CCC reported.
2
The law requires hacked organizations to promptly warn potential identity theft victims.
3
Unfortunately, credit card fraud and identity theft are becoming increasingly big problems.
4
The idea comes from the goddess; the theft is all my own.
5
The Seven-Ten list theft was engineered to lead us to this truth.
6
Sergeant Vanderheyden said the theft followed others in the wider Canterbury region.
7
The case is the FBI's highest profile action against global copyright theft.
8
Next morning she reports the theft and a local policeman seemed concerned.
9
If the theft allegations prove true, Hart said he will rethink plans.
10
The theft happened at the Vincent SuperSpar in East London, reports News24.
11
This will help minimize debit card-related fraud and theft, the bank said.
12
That has more to do with outright theft than the free market.
13
Under a carefully crafted plea deal, the government dropped all theft charges.
14
It was not clear how many people were involved in the theft.
15
Burglary or robbery were the most common crimes experienced, followed by theft.
16
Police said he escaped his confinement and returned back after the theft.
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Theft across language varieties
South Africa
Common
New Zealand
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Ireland
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