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Stealing Steal Else's Ideas Pretend Stole Stolen Writer

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If you s____ someone else's ideas, you pretend that they are your own.If you steal someone else's ideas, you pretend that they are your own.
A writer is suing the director for allegedly stealing his film idea.
His team solved the engineering problem by stealing an idea from nature.
word steal
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verb
If you steal something from someone, you take it away from them without their permission and without intending to return it.
He was accused of stealing a small boy's bicycle.
Bridge stole the money from clients' accounts.
Sometimes she had to steal to eat.
She has since been jailed for six months for stealing from the tills.
We have now found the stolen car.
If you steal someone else's ideas, you pretend that they are your own.
A writer is suing the director for allegedly stealing his film idea.
His team solved the engineering problem by stealing an idea from nature.
If someone steals somewhere, they move there quietly, in a secret way.
They can steal away at night and join us.
Leroy stole up the hall to the parlor.
noun
If you describe something as a steal, you mean that it is very good value.
At only £13.50, this champagne is a steal.
inflections stealsstealingstolestolenstolenknockoffhooky
cefr-level A2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2

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