thief
noun
a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; one guilty of theft or larceny.
Example Sentences
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Laptops, phones and bikes are top of the shopping list for thieves as students head off to university, according to insurer Aviva.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a mayor said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
PARIS—A pair of thieves stole four artworks from a French museum dedicated to the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in a sign of the country’s struggle to protect its cultural heritage following last year’s Louvre heist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Hannah Foust, founder of DeFlock Carrollton, said the cameras give police surveillance power well in excess of what’s needed to stop car thieves.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
You’d think he’d never heard of chicken thieves.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
