in flagrante delicto
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Bats’ nocturnal and elusive lifestyle also means scientists rarely have the chance to observe them in flagrante delicto.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023
Its owner, May Mamarbachi, was jailed under Bashar al-Assad for forwarding a cartoon of the dictator in flagrante delicto with the prime minister of Lebanon.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020
The fossils of the bugs, in flagrante delicto, were found in northeastern China.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2013
Thus discovered, Longaville resorts to words uttered by many a soul surprised in flagrante delicto: “I can explain!”
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2013
God forgive him the fatal accuracy with which he placed every link in a chain of evidence so condemning that I confess poor George seemed almost to have been taken in flagrante delicto.
From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
