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Recent Examples of shoplift
Riley, a Georgia college student, was killed in February by a Venezuelan migrant who had previously been arrested for shoplifting prior to the attack and, subsequently, released on parole.
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Al Weaver, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
Upon closer inspection, department records obtained by The Times indicate that most of the incidents may have started as shoplifting.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The program has shoplifting cases, from as minor as someone stealing food from a grocery store to have something to eat to people loading up shopping carts to sell later.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
Between the lines: Something retailers are especially aware of this time of year is shoplifting, but there could be some good news in Chicago on that front, a study from the Council on Criminal Justice found.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
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Al Weaver, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
Upon closer inspection, department records obtained by The Times indicate that most of the incidents may have started as shoplifting.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The program has shoplifting cases, from as minor as someone stealing food from a grocery store to have something to eat to people loading up shopping carts to sell later.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
Between the lines: Something retailers are especially aware of this time of year is shoplifting, but there could be some good news in Chicago on that front, a study from the Council on Criminal Justice found.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplift
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Trump poached several Fox hosts and commentators for key positions in his administration, including border czar Tom Homan, who is now a regular guest across cable news defending Trump’s immigration policy.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
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Since starting at Starbucks in September, he’s already poached some of his former colleagues to help with his transformation of the coffee giant.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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Green ended up on Cunningham on Detroit’s first possession and aggressively defended the latter, trying to snatch the ball out of his grasp.—
Kelly Iko,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Acclaimed during its 2022 run at the Linda Gross Theater in Manhattan, the piece, which snatched up the Pulitzer Prize in 2023, will once again be directed by Knud Adams, and star Marjan Neshat, Tala Ashe, Hadi Tabbal, Pooya Mohseni, and Ava Lalezarzadeh, all of them making their Broadway debuts.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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Junior forward Lawrence Sallis also grabbed 13 rebounds for the Royals.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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The witness jumped in to assist and grab the knife, cutting himself in the process.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Johnson made a dizzying series of moves before rifling the puck between Kochetkov’s pads.—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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In the end, the inability to get a decisive third goal was costly, as, with just three minutes of normal time remaining, Jorgen Strand Larsen rifled in an equalizer to share the points.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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Around 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, land Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Yemen's Houthi rebels announced on Wednesday the release of the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a commercial vessel seized in November 2023 during their campaign in the Red Sea.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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But because of the draft picks exchanged, that amount is likely to end up closer to $30 million.—
John Hollinger,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Shop my top picks from Columbia, Smith, Carhartt, and more.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Jan. 2025
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Part instructional video, part film noir, the movie opened with the sound of whistling wind and a shot of rustling vegetation.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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In one nifty gag, his new super-hearing makes a rustling spider as noisy as Riverdance’s Michael Flatley.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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What comes across with painful truthfulness is the way history can hijack hopes.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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This app hijacks your PC’s resources, like the CPU and GPU, which slows down its performance significantly.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Shoplift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoplift. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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