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abscond

[ab-skond] / æbˈskɒnd /


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But two reliably fine veterans all but abscond with the show.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

However, a government source admitted it was possible some could abscond before they were detained.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2024

A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

He absconds and leaves four robots adrift, but with aid from unhoused human “robles,” they reconfigure the joint as a ramen shop — until robophobes launch a campaign to shut them down.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2025

Eve absconds and takes one of her husband’s favorite possessions, a small Renoir painting.

From Washington Post Apr. 9, 2023

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

We all hide ourselves behind veils, and, as Emerson says, "Man crouches and blushes, absconds and conceals."

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

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

While some of their teammates flew back from Eswatini's neighbour, South Africa, the seven are said to have absconded.

From BBC Apr. 6, 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

Police said "urgent actions" had been completed after they were reported to have absconded between 17:00 and 20:00 from the prison on 1 January, including flagging the men as wanted via national police systems.

From BBC Jan. 6, 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

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

A third man who is suspected of absconding at the same time was arrested in Bristol on Saturday.

From BBC Jan. 3, 2026

Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2024

Wright said in a written order that Smirnov’s lawyers’ efforts to free him was “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 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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