confiscate
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School staff now confiscate homemade baked goods and suspicious candy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The monitors also tried to confiscate four power banks and chargers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
At this point, the most responsible thing Attorney General Pam Bondi could do is confiscate the department’s television remotes and log everyone out of their social media accounts.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
At Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield, the approach taken by staff remains to ask children to keep phones in their bags and confiscate them if the rule is broken.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Would he confiscate or destroy the book that had taught Harry so much...the book that had become a kind of guide and friend?
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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