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seized

adjective as in confiscated

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The 10-year-old’s letters and notebook were seized by police after her body was found with dozens of injuries at the family’s home in Woking, Surrey, last year.

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Its analysis found Russian forces seized six times more territory in 2024 than it did in the previous year.

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For comparison, Ukrainian forces seized just over 1,171 sq km in the first month of its incursion into Kursk - though Russian forces have now retaken nearly half of that territory.

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The driver gets out of the other side of the vehicle and is then seized by bystanders who start beating him with sticks.

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But in a motion filed Monday, the music mogul’s lawyers contend that what investigators actually seized from his Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn was “attorney-client privileged material,” including handwritten notes by Combs.

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