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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of purloin.

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  • I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'.

    Dis-O Week Kirsty 2007

  • By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications.

    It's Time To Pardon Carbon Larry Bell 2010

  • By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications.

    It's Time To Pardon Carbon Larry Bell 2010

  • I do wonder how Bob Dole protégée Sheila Bair evaluated "WaMu's extensive collection of art and artifacts" when she assigned a price of $1. 9B to the $307B she purloined from the bank and from the NW for Wall St Nation's own Jamie Dimon.

    Food for thought -- spicy food (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Overheard at the Bunch Family Salon, as WonderBaby raced in circles with a giant bottle purloined from the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre Props Corner:

    Dads Can Be Lactivists, Too! | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Trafficking in purloined materials for the sisterhood.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Yet in your posts #s 626 and 647 you refer to Iraqi resistance fighters as “Haji” (a derogatory term obviously purloined from the “Johnny Quest” series from years ago, referring to the dark skinned side kick).

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame 2005

  • Car chase, rooftop chase, sewer chase, apartment knife fight chase, boat chase, plane chase, Chase-Morgan, certainly they all were purloined from the Bourne genre but somehow Bourne’s were more believable.

    Quantum of Solace review 2008

  • That case leads Sam into investigating stolen gold coins purloined on the San Anselmo.

    Spade & Archer-Joe Gores « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

  • But, whatever solid or figure is used to illustrate color relations, it must combine the three scales of hue, value, and chroma, and these definite scales furnish a name for every color based upon its intrinsic qualities, and free from terms purloined in other sensations, or caught from the fluctuating colors of natural objects.

    A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma 1888

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