absconder

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Acting Principal Magistrate Cheng Lim-chi said the defendant clearly knew that his daughter was an absconder and that the insurance policy met the legal definition of funds that belonged to her.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The jury ruled that staff "failed to adequately supervise and secure the therapy room which was fitted with windows that Miss Powell, a frequent absconder, might reasonably believe she could escape through".

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

Later, he was declared an absconder after failing to return.

From Reuters • Oct. 19, 2023

He failed to turn himself in after the challenge proved unsuccessful and was considered “an absconder illegally in this country,” a prosecutor wrote in a sentencing memo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2023

You've no idea—hundreds and hundreds of letters, from all over the country; from strangers, you know, who'd read that he was—well, an absconder.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell