pilfer
verb (used with or without object)
to steal, especially in small quantities.
has pilfered
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present perfectof pilfer (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since 2017, North Korea has pilfered an enormous amount of currency through fraud schemes and by hacking into virtual currency accounts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
He has pilfered electric wire from a factory in Alchevsk to repair electric lines.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may be able to say—"This man has lied, has pilfered, has forged, has embezzled moneys intrusted to him; and that man has gone through life with clean hands."
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
And of all persons I chiefly rage against that faultless angel, that "poor dear Stella," who has pilfered even the paltry tribute of being remembered from the Stella that to-day is mine alone.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
