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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

His house was encumbered with liens and he’d sold a “prop plane” that prosecutors cited when arguing he was a risk to abscond, Maitia said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2025

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

Miss Powell was awaiting specialist treatment, and was known for previous attempts to abscond.

From BBC Dec. 17, 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

Eventually, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” escapes the Istanbul hotel room and absconds to London, where the story becomes choppier and even more episodic, but also more of a modern-day fairy tale.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2022

In beta decay, he speculated, a second, unseen particle emerges with the electron and absconds with a random fraction of the energy.

From Science Magazine Jun. 29, 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

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 Indian Rights Association detailed the case of a widow whose guardian had absconded with most of her possessions.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

One was convicted in a related minor case but later acquitted, and one of the accused is still absconding.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2024

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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