accosted
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Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority has deported and barred 26-year-old Johnson Wen from reentering the country after he crashed the yellow carpet and accosted star Ariana Grande, according to several reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
On Tuesday, the 63-year-old doctor of engineering was accosted as she walked through Mexico City.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
The McCanns, the court heard, then came across the defendants face-to-face when Ms Wandelt and Mrs Spragg turned up outside their home on 7 December 2024 and "accosted" them.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
Twining said he and his wife have been accosted in a restaurant and at the grocery store over his presence at the vigil and the incorrect assumption that he’s supportive of white nationalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
A few days later, after Hoover had had the bonus marchers driven from Washington at the point of bayonets, I accosted him: “What about that revolution you predicted if the bonus marchers were driven out?”
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
