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arrested

ADJECTIVE
taken into custody
Synonyms


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Zhang was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday before she could board a flight to Shanghai.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

More than 5,000 people, 85 percent of them minors, have been arrested.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The warrants had been issued by a judge at the Central Criminal Court on 18 February - the day before Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested in Sandringham.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The FBI arrested California real-estate agent Wanying Zhang on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

So what protected Marina from being arrested during the Great Terror, if hard work, success, and national glory weren’t enough to keep you from suspicion?

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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