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• n  a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

• In one episode, a thief hid his car on a train platform--and then drove it onto a passing train.
• Three weeks ago, a thief cut one of those precious 36 out of its frame in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, where it was on loan from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
• Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk.

• stealer

News & Articles

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• Crimestoppers Offering Reward for Locating Suspected Purse Thief
  TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) - Crimestoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the location of a suspected purse thief.
  June 17, 2013 - WKBW-TV Buffalo
• Thief disguised by grocery bag burglarizes jewelry store
  Police are looking a thief who broke into a Huntsville jewelry store disguised with a grocery bag over their head.
  June 14, 2013 - WAFF 48 News Huntsville
• Thief swipes $90G in jewlery from Tiffany store in NY
  A dapper thief made a fast break from Tiffany after swiping two necklaces worth $90,000 from a counter at the jeweler's flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
  June 12, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• John McCain in The Miami Herald
  I know what fear feels like,McCain said. "It's a thief in the night. It robs your strength ...... I felt those things before. I will never let them in again."
• Courtney Love in USA Today
  It said Love called Simorangkir a "nasty lying hosebag thief" and accused her of being a drug addict and a prostitute.
• Thom Yorke in SouthFlorida.com
  We were going along in a certain trajectory and then suddenly with `Hail to the Thief,' it was: we can't carry along in that way anymore,said Yorke. "To me the hardest thing was finding a reason to carry on."