stolen

verb

Definition of stolennext
past participle of steal
1
as in robbed
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep the guy who tried to steal my car was sentenced to a year in jail

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2
as in sneaked
to move about in a sly or secret manner the teenagers were able to steal past a security guard and enter the fairgrounds without paying admission

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Recent Examples of stolen In addition to the urn, which was shaped as cowboy boots, a number of his medals were stolen as well. — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 These are lives lost, futures stolen – families like ours that are forever broken and changed. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026 Many of the firearms are believed to have been stolen, and could be linked to crimes in the region, federal officials said. — Mark Price july 5, Charlotte Observer, 5 July 2026 Some got a scam text quoting their real hotel and check-in date before they were even told their information had been stolen. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026 Toiletries, including shampoo, soap, and tissues, ranked fourth for most commonly stolen. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 4 July 2026 Its six tries included three from lineout drives, one from a tryline ruck, one from an attacking scrum, and another stolen by Josh Adams. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 According to Center Line police, at least four air conditioning units from a neighborhood were stolen late last week, and investigators say similar thefts have occurred in Warren as well. — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Last July, the Reno Police Department in Nevada said in a news release that a truck shipment managed by Ceva Logistics that contained about $15 million in semiconductors and Apple products was stolen. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stolen
  1. robbed
  2. sneaked
  3. hijacked
  4. slipped
  5. pilfered
  6. filched
  7. purloined
  8. swiped
Verb
  • Gonzalez, robbed of a potential first-inning homer when Adell made a leaping catch of his drive above the wall in right, followed with a towering 368-foot fly that cleared the short left-field wall for his first homer of the season and a 7-1 lead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
  • Gonzalez, robbed of a potential first-inning homer when Adell made a leaping catch of his drive above the wall in right, followed with a towering, 368-foot fly that cleared the short left-field wall for his first homer of the season and a 7-1 lead.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of robbed
Verb
  • When grounders sneaked through the infield, his body language was uneventful.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Some stuff released a bit earlier this week and snuck past me.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of sneaked
Verb
  • For more on how attackers can abuse connected devices, see our report on how the FBI warned that more than 1 million Android devices were hijacked by malware.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • The cruelest dimension of this is that a Christianity hijacked by the evangelical right now seeks to sanctify that mythology in the name of God.
    — Otis Moss III, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
Definition of hijacked
Verb
  • On Tuesday, French Open champion Alexander Zverev slipped worryingly on the baseline but was able to get straight back up.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 3 July 2026
  • The employment-to-population ratio slipped to 59% in June, the lowest since October 2021.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Definition of slipped
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of pilfered
Verb
  • Many people are too embarrassed to report they’ve been filched.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
Definition of filched
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of purloined
Verb
  • 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
Definition of swiped

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