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
"Every effort is being made to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the attack," the spokesman said.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
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
In January, Yemen’s Interior Ministry re-upped a request to its Emirati counterpart to apprehend Al-Maqtari and his associates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
“Every effort is being made to apprehend this fiend,” he said.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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At the same time, it estimates that it apprehends about 80 percent of people crossing illegally.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
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
While ICE typically apprehends undocumented immigrant inmates as they exit the jail, there is no rule forbidding agents from taking them into custody inside the jail, Hadfield said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
The Border Patrol apprehends migrants who cross the border unlawfully.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
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
Nunez said the suspect was "apprehended by an off-duty police officer".
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
State correctional officials said since 1977, nearly all people who have escaped or walked away from an adult institution, camp, in-state contract bed or community-based program placement have been apprehended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
They said the suspect, or suspects, had not yet been apprehended.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Soon I began to lose my fear of being apprehended.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Federal immigration agents fanned across the city, apprehending workers at car washes, garment businesses, Home Depots and other locations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
Border Security Minister Alex Norris said the UK was "cracking down on the criminals exchanging human lives for cash" and praised officers for apprehending "this smuggling kingpin".
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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
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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