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Thief

noun

One who carries out a theft.

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The word "thief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone who steals or takes something without permission. For example, "The thief broke into the house and stole several valuable items."

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McDonald's reinvention of the Hamburglar was seemingly meant as a play for refreshed cultural relevance, but deeply mixed reactions to the new beef thief raise the prospect that the corporation has miscalculated.

The suspected thief is described as being white, 6ft tall, between 30 and 40 years old, of medium build, had a dark brown beard, wore a light grey hooded top with the hood pulled over his head, light blue jeans and black boot style training shoes.

Thedauntlessbookthief, site member My all time favourite book (that just so happens to be set during the second world war) is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

PetrovaFossil, site member My favourite second world war book is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; I loved the way the characters spoke to me as if they were real.

He advised businesses and individuals alike to imagine a thief were outside their house trying to find a way in.

It also neatly tied together all of the conventions of quest-based multiplayer role-playing games: players took on a specific class of character – fighter, wizard, thief, etc – then "leveled up" by killing enemies with a range of weapons and spells, before collecting experience points and loot.

No common thief, he: a day later, he or one of his customers informed my friends via very polite emails that I was no longer in possession of the device.

Meanwhile, the player will discover tomorrow whether he is to receive a six-game domestic ban and a £30,000 fine after allegedly claiming the referee in their 4-2 defeatoto Vitória was a "thief" on his Twitter page.

However, my to-do list is relatively short, as I get things done rather than leaving things hanging – as the poet Edward Young once said, procrastination is the thief of time.

Police are hunting for a thief who stole an elderly woman's purse as she lay dying in the road after being hit by a lorry.

The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.

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