abscond

After Tim and Virginia have a confrontation with the ministorage security, they abscond to Oklahoma, where Virginia has plans for a big score.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But two reliably fine veterans all but abscond with the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Miss Powell was awaiting specialist treatment, and was known for previous attempts to abscond.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

GPS devices are generally seen by probation officials, prosecutors and judges as reducing the risk that a defendant will abscond or commit a new crime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

He absconds and leaves four robots adrift, but with aid from unhoused human “robles,” they reconfigure the joint as a ramen shop — until robophobes launch a campaign to shut them down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

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

The subject, though, is topical enough: backstage drama during the production of an opera, at the end of which the presenter absconds with all the money.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2016

If the principal absconds from the State, the surety can have him followed and brought back without any warrant of arrest.

From The American Judiciary by Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

Khalife sparked a nationwide manhunt when he absconded from HMP Wandsworth, where he was awaiting trial on spying charges, by tying himself to the bottom of a food delivery truck.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

He had reportedly absconded after Twisha's death and was arrested by police in Jabalpur on 22 May.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Last year, North Koreans absconded with $1.5 billion from crypto exchange Bybit, the largest crypto heist ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

He absconded from the Florida cane fields and made it to Tennessee before a tinker caught him stealing food from his pantry.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

The move had not been approved by the Home Office and Ahmadi had been marked as "absconding, self-departing" from the accommodation.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

The Justice Minister Naomi Long has apologised after a convicted killer, with a history of absconding, spent nine months on the run from Magilligan prison after being granted day release.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025

Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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