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How to pronounce “steal”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of steal with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Steal like an ArtistHe, this is his second book he's here to talk about, "Stealing Like an Artist".
Definition summary: (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

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How to pronounce steal

Steal like an Artist

He, this is his second book he's here to talk about, "Stealing Like an Artist".

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Meaning

[Verb]
(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
(transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
(transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
(transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
(transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
(intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
(transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
(transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
(sports, transitive) To dispossess
(informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
(informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
[Noun]
The act of stealing.
(slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
(basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
(baseball) A stolen base.
(curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
(computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

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How to pronounce “steal”

Pronunciation guide for steal

How to pronounce steal

Example Sentences

He, this is his second book he's here to talk about, "Stealing Like an Artist".

talk about stealing art.

all those things, steal them, put them

So my father or my uncle would steal a piece of wood,

is stealing the future we steal the

["Good artists copy, great artists steal."]

You can't walk into somebody's house and just steal the silver.

I steal everything, not just art.

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