Definition of "pilfering" [pil•fer•ing]

• Present participle of pilfer. (verb)

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• "Given Ms. Dowd's celebrity status and her snarky persona -- at least on TV -- I wouldn't be surprised if she probably thought that no one reads TPM and what's a little pilfering from a blog, anyway?"
• "According to T-Mobile, until you otherwise hear from them, you can discount Pwnmobile's claims that he has been pilfering from the T-Mobile's databases "for some time," and has ready access to "everything, their databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.""
• "Open source plagiarism and pilfering is just the way of the online innovator these days."