arrest
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He declined to discuss the arrest of his son but scoffed at the idea that he was part of ETA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Mexican authorities have been working with the U.S. for her provisional arrest since September 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Prosecutor Christopher Dunn claimed it was "clearly a ruse" and the judge issued a bench warrant for her arrest.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
She has been under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw since being unseated in a 2021 military coup.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
“I have news that is very hard to write you. Father survived his arrest by only ten days. He is now with the Lord. . . .”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Sofia was visiting family in Hong Kong in July when her nine-month-old son Matthew contracted influenza A. He suffered three cardiac arrests, leaving him unconscious and on a ventilator.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"The vast majority of arrests -- 320 -- were for expressing support for a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act."
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
She added: "No arrests have been made at this stage, and enquiries are ongoing."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
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
I should demand payment for helping with the arrests.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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They broke down the front door of a stone house and arrested a slender 34-year-old environmental activist named Hodei Ciarra Docampo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Twenty-seven protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday as the hearing took place, the Metropolitan Police said.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Lawyers for Ammori told the court that thousands of elderly people, many veterans of other radical causes, had been arrested for holding up signs supportive of the group since its proscription.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Sheen has been arrested more than 60 times throughout his life for protesting various causes, and was a friend of the labor leader Dolores Huerta, whose image sits on a table in his dining room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
“No! Besides, you really wanna tell Unremarkables that a secret police force arrested our parents for stealing a powerful weapon and took them away in an invisible jet?”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Ms. Corn presents serious works, such as Gordon Parks’s arresting 1942 photograph of the charwoman Ella Watson standing before an American flag with a mop and broom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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 was a world that Richard Kerbaj brings back into lively and arresting focus in “The Defector.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I told the arresting officers, one black and one white, that I was a student.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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