abscond

After Tim and Virginia have a confrontation with the ministorage security, they abscond to Oklahoma, where Virginia has plans for a big score.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But two reliably fine veterans all but abscond with the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

His house was encumbered with liens and he’d sold a “prop plane” that prosecutors cited when arguing he was a risk to abscond, Maitia said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

An inquest has found a woman, who died while trying to abscond from a psychiatric ward, did not intend to take her own life.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

She said the rate of absconds was "coming down substantially", with 57 cases in the year ending March 2025 compared to 143 in the year ending March 2020.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

As excellent as Alikhan’s staging has been throughout, Majok absconds without having to commit herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

Now on view in a mostly sleek Mosaic Theater Company production, “Fabulation” tells of Undine, an African American PR bigwig whose world unravels after her husband absconds with her money.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2019

In beta decay, he speculated, a second, unseen particle emerges with the electron and absconds with a random fraction of the energy.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 29, 2017

If the principal absconds from the State, the surety can have him followed and brought back without any warrant of arrest.

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

Khalife, who sparked a nationwide manhunt when he absconded from the London prison, was sentenced to 14 years and three months for spying for Iran after a 2024 trial.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Last year, North Koreans absconded with $1.5 billion from crypto exchange Bybit, the largest crypto heist ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Crypto firms are racing to backstop the industry’s biggest decentralized lender after North Korea-linked hackers absconded with $190 million from the platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Two years earlier, 15 players and the team doctor were granted asylum in Uganda after they absconded.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

It is with regret that I confirm the report that has come to your ears: The experimental subject has indeed absconded from the property, and, at present, has not been located.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

In the 1940s, for example, he sets out to collect scrap iron for the war effort and ends up absconding with a private collection of military memorabilia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

But was it an egregious, personal error, akin to Totenberg stealing into Alito’s hotel room and absconding with an internal organ, as it has been widely treated?

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

One was convicted in a related minor case but later acquitted, and one of the accused is still absconding.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024

Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides