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stealing

noun as in theft

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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

The story follows a down on his luck family man named Bill Scanlon (Wes Bentley), who takes to stealing after losing his job.

Back then, when partners of stars melted into the background, it was a barnstorming stealing of the show.

Zilch, what with Showtime's other steamy sex-heavy drama, The Affair, stealing its thunder.

In the real world, he said, a hacker is more likely interested in stealing records he can sell than in harming a patient.

If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.

At a late term of the Court of Sessions a man was brought up by a farmer, accused of stealing some ducks.

The crowd dispersed, disappointed; cheated out of their anticipated scene of an arrest for horse-stealing.

One of these leads past Charlecote, famous for Shakespeare's deer-stealing episode, but no longer open to the public.

He never threw away an inch, and his way of stealing foot by foot was worthy of any jockey.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stealing, such as: burglary, embezzlement, larceny, piracy, robbery, and shoplifting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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