apprehend
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"Security forces are operating in the Qalandia camp area in order to thwart terror and apprehend wanted individuals," a military official told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Every effort is being made to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the attack," the spokesman said.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
The interior ministry statement said in a statement translated from Arabic: "Security forces immediately launched an operation to apprehend the perpetrators, acting on precise intelligence and through intensive field operations, tracking the kidnappers' movements."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
In January, Yemen’s Interior Ministry re-upped a request to its Emirati counterpart to apprehend Al-Maqtari and his associates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
“We must apprehend them before they leave this building.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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She plays a thieving fox whom Po apprehends stealing relics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Las Vegas police do not track how many county jail inmates ICE apprehends, OcampoGomez said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
The Border Patrol apprehends migrants who cross the border unlawfully.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
The Border Patrol apprehends people entering the U.S. illegally, both directly at the U.S.-Mexico border and with its series of highway checkpoints miles from the border.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2019
Volkheimer switches off the light, and Werner apprehends something excruciating held at bay there in the darkness.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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A Downey man was charged with a federal firearm-related offense after he was apprehended at the Trump National Golf Club with ammunition in his pocket and a loaded firearm in his pickup truck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
On Wednesday, in a local Sydney court, prosecutors withdrew the charges after it was agreed that Ahmed would abide by an apprehended domestic violence order for 12 months, limiting his contact with his father.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
State correctional officials said since 1977, nearly all people who have escaped or walked away from an adult institution, camp, in-state contract bed or community-based program placement have been apprehended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
He was apprehended after family and friends reached out to law enforcement, officials said last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Izzy, at ten, had been apprehended sneaking into the Humane Society in an attempt to free all the stray cats.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Sir Mark said that "apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
“If the U.S. government is unilaterally going into a sovereign country and apprehending somebody, you can understand the concern that sovereign entity might have,” Colombo told reporters outside the courthouse on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
We must all reexamine our beliefs in a critical and dispassionate spirit to determine whether we are apprehending reality or clinging to mental fetishes.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Witnesses in Hollywood described the agents fanning out in the lot, apprehending people quickly and leaving within roughly half an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
I took these techniques, these ways of seeing and feeling, and twisted them, bent them, adapted them, until they became my ways of apprehending the locked-in life of the Black Belt areas.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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