arrest
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Since hitting a forty-year low in July, the Japanese yen has managed to arrest its long-term decline and is now surprising investors with the speed and scale of its rebound.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
A week later, with fluid building up on the brain, he suffered a cardiac arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Representatives from China’s embassy to Belgium and its mission to the European Union didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Vorcaro told police he had "friends in all branches of government" upon his arrest last year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
People revered him as much as they feared him; they were just as anxious to prove themselves worthy party members as they were to avoid arrest.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Several cars filled the streets around South Figueroa Street and West Alondra Boulevard, where police told OnScene.TV they’d towed about 160 vehicles, made dozens of arrests and located six guns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Namora cited the spread of false information about protest locations and student arrests, which he said are "likely intended to spread fear and discourage civilians from taking part in the demonstrations".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Deputies did not make any arrests at the time they served the search warrant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
On Monday evening, police said there had been 315 arrests that day, bringing the total number of arrests to 560.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
After those arrests, a local circuit court judge, James A. Hare, issued an injunction forbidding public gatherings of more than three people.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a spate of sabotage attacks on Germany's electricity grid after spending several days on the run.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The four suspected Louvre robbers have been arrested, but the jewels they are accused of grabbing in the seven-minute heist have still not been found.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
More than 150 Los Angeles Police Department officers arrested 69 people and impounded 200 vehicles at an illegal street takeover in Harbor Gateway over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
BRUSSELS—Belgium’s revelation that it had arrested a Chinese citizen on suspicion of stealing advanced microchip technology is fueling European anxiety about Beijing’s trade practices and quest for industrial secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
She was the one who’d been arrested and nearly shot just because she’d got stuck on the German side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The solution, the IMF says: “Fiscal stimulus should be focused on durably boosting consumption by investing in people” and arresting the property bust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
It is part of a push by President Emmanuel Macron for children to spend less time in front of screens, which the government fears is arresting their development.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Most arresting was the oldest opera represented here, Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” given an acute updating by director Eric Einhorn and Kelley Rourke, who devised the brilliantly calibrated English adaptation of the libretto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Thus putting a city directly on top of it was an arresting statement: Here we are.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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