absconded

Example Sentences

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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

Burr and his co-conspirators absconded with the money, and it took another 40 years for New Yorkers to gain wide access to potable water.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

A sixth member - Hemin Ali Salih – absconded but was convicted in his absence and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

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