apprehend
Example Sentences
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The interior ministry statement said in a statement translated from Arabic: "Security forces immediately launched an operation to apprehend the perpetrators, acting on precise intelligence and through intensive field operations, tracking the kidnappers' movements."
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Los Alamitos police investigators did not immediately respond to questions from The Times about why it took six months to apprehend Childers.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Waltz added that the US had carried out a "surgical law enforcement operation" to apprehend Maduro, whom he is also referred to as a "fugitive from justice".
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
John McPhee, a punctilious user of reference material, has written that he mostly looks up words he already knows to better apprehend their nuances.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
“If any one should try to harm or apprehend you. “But where would I go?”
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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