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At one British university, students were purloining towels from their dispensers, so Sofidel provided dispensers with locks.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2019

Instantly Orin gathered up several of the bills quickly, conveying them out of sight with a guilty air as if he were purloining them.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo