- past participle of steal.
stolen
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Following his father’s maxim that “if you ain’t first, you’re last,” Ricky Bobby can’t imagine a win for anyone else as anything less than something stolen from him.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
A Japanese musician who cancelled performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after her treasured instruments were stolen has decided to go ahead with her final shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million which were stolen from an Italian museum in March have been recovered, police said Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
When Thoreau visited the scene a few days later, he “found women who had already altered the gowns of the passengers—presumably including Fuller’s—that their husbands and sons had stolen from the beach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But he did not admit to stealing the Mona Lisa—he hadn’t stolen it, after all.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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