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confiscate

[kon-fuh-skeyt, kuhn-fis-kit] / ˈkɒn fəˌskeɪt, kənˈfɪs kɪt /


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It said forces had worked to remove the settlers from the house, separate the groups and confiscate vehicles "that were suspected of having been used to reach the area".

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

In February, Curtis was the first person to publicly announce Bianco planned to confiscate the ballots.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

The law doesn't allow the Crown to confiscate property or assets directly - it's an order for payment.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

School staff now confiscate homemade baked goods and suspicious candy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

“They confiscate our phones while we’re in the building.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents,” he says.

From MarketWatch Nov. 24, 2025

And he voted for a bill to strengthen a unique California program that confiscates guns from convicted felons who aren’t supposed to have them.

From Seattle Times Jul. 4, 2022

The FBI comes back and confiscates the original devices, but not before Isaac made a copy of the hard drive.

From Fox News Oct. 15, 2020

Anyway, let’s discuss everything else happening in the golf world before someone confiscates my computer.

From Golf Digest May 14, 2019

She keeps a whole collection of the stuff she confiscates, and I don’t want my phone to be part of it.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Conservation scientists may be able to analyze confiscated scales, determine which pangolin species they came from, and then use that information to identify regions where poaching pressure is especially intense.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

In other footage, the Israeli forces appear to have confiscated the canopy under which the settlers were sheltering, while leaving their other equipment.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

When officials recently confiscated 350 turtles there, they brought them to the conservancy to care for them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Long-term bonds became known, jocularly, as “certificates of confiscation”: Owning them entitled you to have some of your money confiscated by the government every year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

It was a federal holding prison built inside Dutch Schultz's old liquor warehouse, which had been confiscated during Prohibition after Dutch was arrested.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

But the answer isn’t confiscating the screen that replaced the world I grew up in.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

Berlin city's government says confiscating the properties on these grounds would be the job of the Lichtenberg city district that takes in Karlshorst.

From Barron's Feb. 8, 2026

Natanson endured an early morning raid with federal agents performing a physical search of her home and confiscating her personal devices.

From Salon Jan. 17, 2026

The school may use the dashboard to identify rule-breakers in the future, but for now, teachers and staff are simply confiscating phones on sight, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2025

She’d taken the plans from Sela as if she were confiscating acorns from a baby mouse.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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