Example Sentences
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With “Avalon,” it’s as though Zink glanced at the mundane little formula that recurs throughout her press clippings and filched it for a plot.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
Lisa Graves, the former Leahy counsel who’d written the filched strategy memo, watched the hearing from her home in Wisconsin.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
Philharmonic to cellist Peter Stumpf after it had been filched from the front porch of his Los Feliz home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2019
Like a human woman, Rachael had every class of object conceivable filched and hidden away in her purse; he found himself rooting interminably.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
