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"This is an attack on my private ownership and my artist's work... if they confiscate it," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

In a podcast, Mansour spoke about how in the 1970s and 1980s soldiers would confiscate posters and postcards, arresting the sellers.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The lawsuit alleges that Sheriff Robert Luna failed to confiscate Giandomenico’s phone after learning of the photos and tried to conceal from Nancy Lemus that the images existed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

In their book “Why Nations Fail,” Nobel Prize winners Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson wrote that “extractive” institutions concentrate power in the hands of an elite who then confiscate wealth from the rest of society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

They sent staff members into Studio One to confiscate all scripts of the radio play.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

It confiscates cellphones by the thousand and drones by the dozen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025

When capos are arrested, the government confiscates whatever land is in their name and holds it in a byzantine bureaucracy.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

The FBI comes back and confiscates the original devices, but not before Isaac made a copy of the hard drive.

From Fox News ● Oct. 15, 2020

The captain, however, has been watching, and when the parrot flaps off very self-satisfied, he confiscates my pencil and pad.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

His Apple Watch was still linked to his iPhone, which hours earlier had been confiscated by the officers now sleeping next door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Klein similarly reported that her credential had been deactivated, while Politico said Haslett’s badge was confiscated.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Prosecutors have also requested four of the brothers' luxury cars worth £710,000 are confiscated.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Aquarium of the Pacific is part of the Southern California Wildlife Confiscations Network, which helps care for confiscated and trafficked wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

De Klerk called for an urgent meeting with me and read to me from documents he claimed had been confiscated in the raid.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The government, which launched a crackdown on waste crime last week, said it would do more to force criminals to pay for clean-up operations by confiscating their money and assets.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The authorities are confiscating families’ properties, or setting such high bail for arrested family members that people are forced to sell their possessions, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Berlin city's government says confiscating the properties on these grounds would be the job of the Lichtenberg city district that takes in Karlshorst.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

Natanson endured an early morning raid with federal agents performing a physical search of her home and confiscating her personal devices.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

They were confiscating the two vehicles registered under a prisoner’s name.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez