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confiscation

noun as in seizure

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Anti-state charges remain common across the globeKurdish journalist Dindar Karataş was detained and his equipment confiscated in November in the eastern city of Van.

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The Baltimore law firm went to court to challenge the search, saying thousands of electronic files unrelated to the investigation were confiscated.

One FDA study found that 85 percent of confiscated drugs that were supposedly imported from Canada were actually manufactured in 27 other countries.

Methamphetamine seizures rose 41 percent, heroin was up 181 percent and CBP confiscated 300 percent more fentanyl than in October 2019, he said.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to confiscation, such as: appropriation, expropriation, and arrogation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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