purloin
verb (used with object)
to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
has purloined
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present perfectof purloin (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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Prices for standard bonds, for example, fall to compensate for the fact that inflation has purloined part of their original yields.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
In other works, Parker has purloined objects, squashed them, melted them down and recast them, scratched them, and fired bullets at them.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2017
In the last 18 months alone, for example, it has purloined 125 teachers from campuses all over the U.S., and in the last decade it has acquired five Nobel prizewinners.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose he has purloined from me two hundred guineas, which I entrusted to his fidelity.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
But it is worse to find at one's front door a vision of vengeance and destruction in the shape of a giant Irish wolfhound whose kill one has purloined.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell
