In any case, I would have been unhappy to simply steal them away.

No one could simply steal the electronic key and use it to come on board.

Or would you regard that as simply stealing from future generations?

They thought she had simply stolen the jewel off her dead mother's body and hidden it.

We cannot stick to a schedule if someone simply steals the speaking time of others, as you indeed have just done.

"Perhaps we should simply steal your ship, like we did before."

In practice, however, there is a trap to such a technique: one story, if much stronger than the other, can simply steal the show.

Some of the money was wasted or simply stolen.

They are simply stolen in a criminal process called "booth capturing."