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arrest

[uh-rest] / əˈrɛst /






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The agents then arrest the defendant, bring them before the judge, and, almost always, ask that the defendant be detained.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Spanish media, including Marca, reported De Miguel suffered a cardiac arrest in the ambulance and was resuscitated by paramedics on the way to hospital.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The arrest took place on Saturday, according to media reports.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

This week, the department announced the arrest of two Monterey International School employees in connection with the costly discovery at the publicly funded kindergarten-through-8th-grade charter school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Goron couldn’t simply arrest him and measure him on the basis of an outlandish theory.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

State officials and election experts have pointed to the small numbers of arrests, despite a sweeping probe to find such voters by Essayli and others, as proof such fraud is rare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Police were reported to have made several arrests.

From Barron's ● 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

There have been thousands of arrests, and Italy and France have promised to impose a "you break it, you pay for it" policy for rioters.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The protests continued, and so did the arrests.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

She discovered that the event had been raided, she says, and some of her family and friends arrested by the IRGC.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

A former federal prosecutor, Faruqui said the Justice Department typically uses complaints only in exigent circumstances, such as when someone is arrested off the street or poses a flight risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

More than 770 people were arrested during weekend protests in France, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

When Regina refused to move, she was arrested by an officer of the Chicago Police Department for disturbing the peace, and she, Bobby, and Joan were forced to move out.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The findings provide clinical trial evidence that the manufacturer can use in an application seeking FDA approval of SDF as a drug for arresting dental caries, the medical term for tooth decay.

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 is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

With more police and sheriff’s deputies joining immigration enforcement, “we’re not in the streets arresting these individuals,” Mullin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

His face had an arresting stillness, and a strength that made Torak think of carved sandstone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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