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Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News • Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

Luhnow offered this lament even as the Astros were filching pitching signs like itchy-fingered bank robbers.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2018

If the filching be but cleverly done, the setting of the stolen gems individual, who cares for the real creator!

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James