PILFERED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

pilfered

verb

past tense of pilfer

as in stole

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?

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Recent Examples of pilfered Many of the things that happen in this film have happened for real, and they’re pilfered from actual F1 events. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Mar. 2026 Tyler Cordeiro first pilfered Jannotta’s prescription pills as a teenager. — Craig R. McCoy, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026 Tyler Cordeiro first pilfered Jannotta’s prescription pills as a teenager. — Craig R. McCoy, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2026 What is that if not a direct license to keep even more public money pilfered via nonpayment, and a marker that the president and his inner circle are above the law? — New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 28 May 2026 What is that if not a direct license to keep even more public money pilfered via nonpayment, and a marker that the president and his inner circle are above the law? — The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026 The music joins the casting and a too-scary third act as the only elements of this movie that don’t fully embrace its bar-lowering lack of ambition — the only elements that don’t feel pilfered from pre-existing classics. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 May 2026 In the 10th minute, Neil El Aynaoui pilfered the ball from Ryan Christie, then nearly capitalized on the ensuing counterattack, finding free space in front of an open net but overrunning Azzedine Ounahi’s cross. — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 20 June 2026 As when just standing in the Mingus Quick Stop parking lot and squinting down the street at lifting dust while overhearing from within the most mysterious conversation about missing Little Debbie Honey Buns—not stolen, gradually pilfered, but just missing. — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

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The press release says in total Fleming stole about $450,000 in cash.

— Mary Ella Hastings July 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
That's when Brandon Miller made his move and stole not only the win but the show.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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Two weeks before Maria hit, Hurricane Irma swiped past the island’s northeast corner as a Category 5 storm, also knocking out power.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
That tactic may situate this work within a lineage that includes Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella, artists who used swiped, torn ads during the postwar era.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026

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