apprehend
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"We are urgently working to find and apprehend him, and would appeal to him directly to hand himself in."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
"We owe it to Beata and her family to find answers, and to apprehend anyone involved in her death," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
The cantonal public prosecutor's office has opened a criminal investigation, which is ongoing to try and apprehend the perpetrators, it 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
I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale- swept vertex.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Porzak, a gifted photographer, apprehends the world visually, but to reach her mother as she slipped in and out of a coma, she used sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
Las Vegas police do not track how many county jail inmates ICE apprehends, OcampoGomez said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
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
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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It has apprehended 23 people under arrest warrants, while 35 others remain at large, along with an unknown number sought under warrants that remain sealed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
"While we are still investigating the motives of this individual, we are thankful he was apprehended before the President's visit," First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement late Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Authorities said the poaching suspects were apprehended “recently” but did not give a specific date for the operation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He was apprehended after family and friends reached out to law enforcement, officials said last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Days later, I could not find the tortoise, and apprehended that hunger had wrestled custom and comity and triumphed over them both.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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
We must all reexamine our beliefs in a critical and dispassionate spirit to determine whether we are apprehending reality or clinging to mental fetishes.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
Gaitok will show his girlfriend, Mook, that his compassion and preference for care over violence will not stand in his way in apprehending the robbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
I took these techniques, these ways of seeing and feeling, and twisted them, bent them, adapted them, until they became my ways of apprehending the locked-in life of the Black Belt areas.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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