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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

When that happens, there can be relatively little left to confiscate.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

School staff now confiscate homemade baked goods and suspicious candy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

The monitors also tried to confiscate four power banks and chargers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Would he confiscate or destroy the book that had taught Harry so much...the book that had become a kind of guide and friend?

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025

When capos are arrested, the government confiscates whatever land is in their name and holds it in a byzantine bureaucracy.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

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

The only excitement in this over comes when a steward confiscates a giant inflatable watermelon, only for Jofra Archer to nick it off him and return it to the crowd, who chant “Arise Sir Jofra”.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 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

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

In mid-May, after a series of surprise inspections, authorities confiscated counterfeit goods from the markets and issued fines totalling more than $19,000.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Come to think of it, she’d risked getting her phone confiscated.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Although he has tried to bolster state finances by raising Russia’s value-added tax and confiscating the wealth of certain oligarchs, he has shielded wartime spending from broader budget cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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

Apparently inspired by the black wave, some enterprising rebel commander came up with the idea of confiscating people’s abandoned automobiles and sending them unmanned down the streets.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins