flagrance

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Bats’ nocturnal and elusive lifestyle also means scientists rarely have the chance to observe them in flagrante delicto.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023

Its owner, May Mamarbachi, was jailed under Bashar al-Assad for forwarding a cartoon of the dictator in flagrante delicto with the prime minister of Lebanon.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

She provides an intriguing history of the term “white-collar crime” and wonders why so many white-collar offenders avoid significant punishment, even when caught in flagrante.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2020

According to statistics that they freely share with the press, seventy-three per cent of their identifications have led to criminal charges; many of these suspects, realizing that they have been caught in flagrante, plead guilty.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2016

There, almost on the instant, Jago had taken him in flagrante delicto, and, having an impediment in his speech, had used no words but collared him.

From The Mayor of Troy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir