have been stealing
- present perfect progressive of steal.
Example Sentences
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The hacker or hackers are known by Google as UNC6040 which have been stealing data through tricking employees into handing over their log in details for internal company Salesforce software.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
“This successful operation targeted transnational criminal organizations that have been stealing from our less fortunate neighbors and the taxpayers,” said John Pasciucco, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
White Sox reliever Ryan Tepera implied Sunday night that Houston may have been stealing signs in Games 1 and 2 of their AL Division Series after Chicago won the third game.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
Foxes have been stealing papers in Bill McCloskey’s Bethesda neighborhood, too, stashing them in a den in Boundary Park on River Road.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
To take it for himself...it would have been stealing.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
