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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pilfer.

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Examples

  • What I like to do is use nouns pilfered from a seemingly non-poetic source text -- this can be People Magazine (fabulous contemporary noun mall) or an internet article on hydroponics -- to explore a dream.

    Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics Melissa Broder 2010

  • The DVD even came with a few of those nifty 3-D glasses, which looked like they'd been pilfered from a batch of cereal boxes.

    Rabid Rewind (Book vs. Movie): Coraline 2010

  • What I like to do is use nouns pilfered from a seemingly non-poetic source text -- this can be People Magazine (fabulous contemporary noun mall) or an internet article on hydroponics -- to explore a dream.

    Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics Melissa Broder 2010

  • What I like to do is use nouns pilfered from a seemingly non-poetic source text -- this can be People Magazine (fabulous contemporary noun mall) or an internet article on hydroponics -- to explore a dream.

    Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics Melissa Broder 2010

  • The DVD even came with a few of those nifty 3-D glasses, which looked like they'd been pilfered from a batch of cereal boxes.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • What I like to do is use nouns pilfered from a seemingly non-poetic source text -- this can be People Magazine (fabulous contemporary noun mall) or an internet article on hydroponics -- to explore a dream.

    Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics Melissa Broder 2010

  • What I like to do is use nouns pilfered from a seemingly non-poetic source text -- this can be People Magazine (fabulous contemporary noun mall) or an internet article on hydroponics -- to explore a dream.

    Melissa Broder: Grand Theft Poetics Melissa Broder 2010

  • It's actually quite well done and worth the look, and considering how much these douchebags have pilfered from the public in the last ... well, for ever, it's the least they could give back to Joe Sixpack.

    Little Linkie Love 2008

  • The E911 document ( "Control Office Administration Of Enhanced 911 Services For Special Services and Account Centers") is an impenetrable bureaucratic document that was pilfered from a Bell South compute by a young hacker, and which led to an incredible domino-chain of legal and political ramifications.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • “Single Gun Theory” begins with footage pilfered from the 1945 Three Stooges short “Three Pests in a Mess.”

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

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