absconder
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Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi said the defendant clearly knew that his daughter was an absconder and that the insurance policy met the legal definition of funds that belonged to her.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
“It’s crucial that recording is done properly,” he said, adding that sign-in failures by a known absconder needed to be logged and passed back to the probation officer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
Later, he was declared an absconder after failing to return.
From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2023
He failed to turn himself in after the challenge proved unsuccessful and was considered “an absconder illegally in this country,” a prosecutor wrote in a sentencing memo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
The coal workings were abandoned; the new Commandant had probably other work for his beasts of burden to execute, and an absconder would be safe here for a few hours at least.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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