thievery
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Witnessing an act of hair thievery in the wild inspired Henry Pollock to dig deeper.
There’s a new word for birds stealing animal hair: kleptotrichy | Jaime Chambers | October 4, 2021 | Science News For StudentsIt is worse than simple thievery because those who are most knowledgeable use their knowledge to mislead their customers.
The Case for Abandoning 'Corporate Responsibility' When We Judge Company Practices | William Nordhaus | April 20, 2021 | TimeHe’s claimed that community members wanted several hundred thousand dollars spent in one way, but that district leaders spent it in another – which, to his way of thinking, constitutes thievery from the children.
Emails Back Up Misspending Allegation at Lincoln High | Will Huntsberry | March 10, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoHe was also swept about in the music of D.C., a scene which gave rise to such acts as Fugazi and thievery Corporation.
DJ Spooky Wants You To Question Everything You Know About Music, Technology, and Philosophy | Oliver Jones | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMuch as all of us loved Ocean's Twelve, I'm sure, it turns out that there's not really much money in high-end art thievery.
So You've Stolen a Valuable Painting. What Do You Do Now? | Megan McArdle | October 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The majority want the thievery on Wall Street to be stopped.
Some international observers are suggesting the level of electoral thievery could invalidate the results.
Which explains as well the rather mild reaction to the mullahs' electoral thievery by the American administration.
They worship Mahomet, but are very bad Mahometans, being addicted beyond all other people on earth to thievery and rapine.
The point of the writer's attack was the grim sarcasm for such methods of thievery as are kept within the law.
Within the Law | Marvin DanaI had to discharge Alma Jonsson last year for petty thievery.
Plays--First Series | August StrindbergWe saw no disposition to thievery among them, nor did we miss a single article after their departure.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan PoeThat Nature is a Phantasm, where cunning beggary or thievery may sometimes find good victual.
Past and Present | Thomas Carlyle
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