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apprehend

[ap-ri-hend] / ˌæp rɪˈhɛnd /




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"Security forces are operating in the Qalandia camp area in order to thwart terror and apprehend wanted individuals," a military official told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

"Every effort is being made to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the attack," the spokesman said.

From Barron's May 23, 2026

County Sheriff’s Department and Ventura County Sheriff’s Department worked collaboratively to apprehend the seven alleged thieves.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

He parked his vehicle to stop Malone from getting away and tried to apprehend him.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale- swept vertex.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

She plays a thieving fox whom Po apprehends stealing relics.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

The Border Patrol apprehends migrants who cross the border unlawfully.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2020

The Border Patrol apprehends people entering the U.S. illegally, both directly at the U.S.-Mexico border and with its series of highway checkpoints miles from the border.

From Seattle Times Jul. 23, 2019

Curtis Smiley, says Currier apprehends a high volume of violators and despite his effectiveness as a warden, he remains highly respected as a member of the sporting community.

From Washington Times Jun. 1, 2016

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

The target folders ensured that agents apprehended the correct person.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Authorities said the poaching suspects were apprehended “recently” but did not give a specific date for the operation.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The Sunday Telegraph leads with the arrest overnight of a "28-year-old white British male" who it says was "apprehended in South Yorkshire after manhunt following murder".

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

He was apprehended after family and friends reached out to law enforcement, officials said last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual fife— that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The viral photograph of federal authorities apprehending little Liam Conejo Ramos in his bunny ear beanie and Spider-Man backpack stunned viewers across the country, filling them with horror and rage.

From Salon Mar. 2, 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

By June, Bass faced a different emergency: waves of masked and heavily armed federal agents apprehending immigrants at car washes, Home Depots and elsewhere, sparking furious street protests.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 11, 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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