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- noun Plural form of
pilferer .
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Examples
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Teh yoot of today is teh pilferers leaders of tomorrow.
OMGSH I GOTS A - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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In old times Laverna was the Goddess of thieves, pick-pockets, and all sorts of pilferers, — a connexion of names that gave me no small satisfaction.
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Obviously sticking two fingers up at the self-absorbed pilferers and Cliveden Set is going to be the only way to anchor politics and media in reality rather than celebrity indulgence.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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What Meralco should do instead is to make full use of its monitoring potentials to catch those pilferers, in coordination with the police or barangay officials in the community.
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This is true: as long as some aid was making it past the pilferers, end recipients would be worse off if Bank funds are turned off entirely.
Suzanne Nossel: Don't Let Anti-Corruption Go Down With Wolfowitz 2008
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Ten days ago, two sangomas assured Midrand businessman Carnie Mattison that their muti would detect pilferers at his workplace.
Businessman Curses Pilferers Christopher 2008
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Ten days ago, two sangomas assured Midrand businessman Carnie Mattison that their muti would detect pilferers at his workplace.
Archive 2008-02-01 Christopher 2008
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The title-page is succeeded by an anonymous address to the reader, at the foot of which occurs a peremptory warning to pilferers of dishes or parts thereof; in other words, to piratical invaders of the copyright of Monsieur
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Fed up with rampant looting from public utilities that has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on Monday declared war on pilferers of railway beams, telephone and electrical wires and transformer oil.
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Why then do you delude yourselves and cheat others? and why do you put on a guise which does not belong to you, and walk about being thieves and pilferers of these names and things which do not belong to you?
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