steal
verb (used with object)
to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force.
will have stolen
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future perfectof steal.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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If Russia can negotiate formal treaties with its autonomous republics in a month, as planned, Yeltsin will have stolen another march on Gorbachev.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thief will have stolen not only your past and present but also a reliable guide to your future.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is stupid enough, yet, lay anything aside, and in a trice he will have stolen it.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
Others will have stolen to the back and sides of the house; you will, in short, stop the earths after I enter.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
“Perhaps,” said the captain, “but it will be only a short war, and at the end of it the United States will have stolen Texas.”
From Ahead of the Army by C. Chase Emerson
