apprehend
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To begin, law enforcement agents cannot use deadly force merely to apprehend someone suspected of crime.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
"I'm grateful to the FBI for leading this investigation and to the New York State Police for their work to apprehend this dangerous individual," New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote on X.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Every effort is being made to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the attack," the spokesman said.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
County Sheriff’s Department and Ventura County Sheriff’s Department worked collaboratively to apprehend the seven alleged thieves.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Ill Patrolman Mancuso had tried a little moonlighting in his effort to apprehend someone, anyone for the sergeant.
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
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
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, who ran the agency that apprehends migrants at the border and screens cars and trucks passing through legal checkpoints, took over as acting DHS secretary on Wednesday.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 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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Some 100 people who arrived were surrounded by police and one of the movement's coordinators, Benjamin Ball, and its spokeswoman, Azelma Sigaux, were apprehended by police, an AFP reporter said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
Brown wasn’t arrested until November, when he was apprehended by U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
It reports five of the occupants were apprehended "only after a GB News producer alerted the authorities".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Police later said the teenage suspect apprehended was the Welsh-born son of Christian Rwandan immigrants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Talk turns to the possibilities that she has been apprehended and arrested, turned us in voluntarily, or simply been injured in the wave of refugees.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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ICE, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, has defended its arrests near courthouses as a “common sense” approach to apprehending offenders at times and locations where authorities know they will be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Hargitay, largely known for apprehending “especially heinous” offenders for the last 27 years, is just about the farthest away from an objectionable choice as you can get.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
It is not the first time Latin American officers have used fancy dress while apprehending suspected criminals.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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
An age when crime was a fact of life, and entire industries were based on apprehending, trying, and punishing criminals.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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