abscond
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After Tim and Virginia have a confrontation with the ministorage security, they abscond to Oklahoma, where Virginia has plans for a big score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s a far cry from the sleek criminals of streaming series, who seldom budge from their computers and abscond with millions and billions thanks to a few clicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
GPS devices are generally seen by probation officials, prosecutors and judges as reducing the risk that a defendant will abscond or commit a new crime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
No 10 said it was "not accurate" to say the Home Office was unable to locate the others, but a government source admitted it was possible some could abscond before they were detained.
From BBC ● May 1, 2024
A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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She said the rate of absconds was "coming down substantially", with 57 cases in the year ending March 2025 compared to 143 in the year ending March 2020.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
Eve absconds and takes one of her husband’s favorite possessions, a small Renoir painting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023
As excellent as Alikhan’s staging has been throughout, Majok absconds without having to commit herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Rather than discarding the series’ dated gender dynamics, Odyssey at first appears to speed-run right into them: Bowser, Mario’s Godzilla-like nemesis for more than 30 years, absconds with Princess Peach in order to marry her.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2017
The priest then absconds with her, and the husband suspects nothing.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Crypto firms are racing to backstop the industry’s biggest decentralized lender after North Korea-linked hackers absconded with $190 million from the platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Those who have absconded include goalkeeper Kubrom Solomon and veteran winger Medhanie Redie.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
The Metropolitan Police said officers believed Boakye, 21, was smuggled out of the UK in a lorry after he absconded while in police custody on 15 February.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
“If this data has been absconded or downloaded, you could perpetuate fraud against every single government system in existence much more easily than at any time in our history.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
The nostalgia is the stronger and the more ambiguous because he is really ‘in quest of his own absconded self yet scared to find it’.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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But was it an egregious, personal error, akin to Totenberg stealing into Alito’s hotel room and absconding with an internal organ, as it has been widely treated?
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
With Samarth still absconding, Twisha's family making grave allegations against the Singhs and the former judge giving interviews about the deceased's alleged mental health issues, there has been relentless media coverage of the case.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Mohammed started absconding, and even went on the demos himself.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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