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arrest

[uh-rest] / əˈrɛst /






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This week, the department announced the arrest of two Monterey International School employees in connection with the costly discovery at the publicly funded kindergarten-through-8th-grade charter school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Teare said Morales wasn’t in custody and a warrant for an arrest would be issued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A dad who suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in a shop said his 12-year-old son could have lost his dad if a "hero" off-duty police officer had not saved him.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

It did not mention any meeting with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, who authorities say is under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

All the directors of the Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute, in Moscow, were swept up in the arrest along with them.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

State officials of both parties have prepared for extreme scenarios, drafting legal briefs and some running simulations for potential arrests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

As arrests soared, Taylor worked to place the district attorney’s decisions under unprecedented scrutiny, saying he wanted to ensure that the prosecution of task force cases was as aggressive as the task force itself.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Police told the family last month that they expected a break in the case soon, but no arrests have been announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

But the same data, external shows that a large chunk of the arrests involve people without criminal convictions.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

I should demand payment for helping with the arrests.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

With the Red Army approaching, King Michael I, hitherto a figurehead, launches a palace coup and has Antonescu arrested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

More than 3,700 people are believed to have been arrested in the UK over alleged support of the group.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In recent months, the Russian authorities searched the home of Sokolov and earlier this year arrested one of its journalists, Oleg Roldugin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

He was arrested June 24 and held in Marion County Jail in Indiana with bail set at $40,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

He’d been arrested earlier that year while in charge of another air force regiment, for endangering the life of a top government official by failing to fly with him through a dust storm.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Dentists refer to this as arresting tooth decay, meaning the damaged area stops deteriorating.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"What the regime wants is to intimidate, silence and frighten society through such pressure -- by arresting individual journalists, seizing media outlets, banning news coverage and blocking access to social media," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

With more police and sheriff’s deputies joining immigration enforcement, “we’re not in the streets arresting these individuals,” Mullin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

No less arresting is Lyme disease, which comes from the bite of a tiny deer tick.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson


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