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heisted

  • past participle of heist.
  • past tense form of heist.

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Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2021

The trade secrets were heisted from Zhang’s former employer, Skyworks Solutions in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Avago Technlogies, a San Jose, California, company later acquired by chipmaker Broadcom.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2020

During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2018

The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.

From Successful Recitations by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)