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accosted

verb as in approach for conversation or solicitation

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Twining said he and his wife have been accosted in a restaurant and at the grocery store over his presence at the vigil and the incorrect assumption that he’s supportive of white nationalists.

“What is the reasonable suspicion for him to be accosted?”

Some of Toby’s friends who are at risk of being accosted by federal agents “think about it every day,” she said.

Among the federal authorities allegedly accosted have been Border Patrol agents.

A few weeks prior, a surfer was reportedly accosted by a “feral, almost demonic” sea lion that he said dragged him off his board in Oxnard and stalked him in the water.

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

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