abscond
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But two reliably fine veterans all but abscond with the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
His house was encumbered with liens and he’d sold a “prop plane” that prosecutors cited when arguing he was a risk to abscond, Maitia said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
It’s a far cry from the sleek criminals of streaming series, who seldom budge from their computers and abscond with millions and billions thanks to a few clicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
During his time at Huntlyburn Harris made several attempts to abscond.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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She said the rate of absconds was "coming down substantially", with 57 cases in the year ending March 2025 compared to 143 in the year ending March 2020.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
If your investment manager absconds with your tokens, or a merchant fails to deliver what you bought with your bitcoin, you’re on your own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024
Rather than discarding the series’ dated gender dynamics, Odyssey at first appears to speed-run right into them: Bowser, Mario’s Godzilla-like nemesis for more than 30 years, absconds with Princess Peach in order to marry her.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2017
In beta decay, he speculated, a second, unseen particle emerges with the electron and absconds with a random fraction of the energy.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 29, 2017
Horace Walpole, however, uses it in the former sense: "Virette absconds, and has sent M. de Pecquigny word that he shall abscond till he can find a proper opportunity of fighting him."
From Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Crypto firms are racing to backstop the industry’s biggest decentralized lender after North Korea-linked hackers absconded with $190 million from the platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
A prisoner has absconded from a hospital in London for the second time in less than a week.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
“If this data has been absconded or downloaded, you could perpetuate fraud against every single government system in existence much more easily than at any time in our history.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
An open prison from which three prisoners absconded on New Years' Day will be subject to a review, a government minister has confirmed.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
The nostalgia is the stronger and the more ambiguous because he is really ‘in quest of his own absconded self yet scared to find it’.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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But was it an egregious, personal error, akin to Totenberg stealing into Alito’s hotel room and absconding with an internal organ, as it has been widely treated?
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Before making a recommendation the parole board conducts a thorough assessment of the offender's risk of harm and risk of absconding," said Davies-Jones.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Wright said in a written order that Smirnov’s lawyers’ efforts to free him was “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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