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Example sentences for: thefts

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The higher penalties will have multiple effects: One is to reduce the number of thefts, but another is to encourage more violent action by the thieves that remain when faced with the risk of capture.
Even though the American taste for plundering placenames has provided words like telethon to other nations, some have commited semantic thefts of their own.
From a social viewpoint, if the total number of thefts does not change, then the expenditure on alarm systems is pure waste.
But the thefts were only haltingly investigated by the FBI, and no arrests have ever been made.
Recent stories: thefts of antiquities during a high-profile government dam project, and false murder convictions.