PURLOINED Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

purloined

verb

past tense of purloin

as in stole

to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale

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Recent Examples of purloined Your duty to intervene increases with the value of the object and the likelihood it will be purloined. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025 The world press was less restrained; the Post, the Daily Mail, the Hindustan Times, and many others ran screaming headlines, accompanied by photographs of the climbers purloined from social media. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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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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