confiscated

Example Sentences

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Investigators confiscated a total of 851 packages from the three vehicles with a combined weight of more than a ton.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

"Havana Docks has shown that the cruise lines used confiscated property in which Havana Docks had a property interest and to which it owns a claim."

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“At that point, the docks were tainted as confiscated property,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the majority opinion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Officers explain the dispersal notice bans him from the city centre for 48 hours, and say they have confiscated vapes and his balaclava.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer