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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abscond .
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Examples
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Michael Spurr, chief operating officer of the National Offender Management Service, said steps had been taken to strengthen the management at Ford: "I am pleased the good work done by the prison on safety, suicide and self-harm, healthcare, and improved security with fewer absconds, has been acknowledged."
Drink and drugs rife at new year riot prison, report finds 2011
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"Nobody absconds with and remarkets another artist's plundering of yet another artist's unoriginal work quite like Flo Rida," remarked one admiring industry insider.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It John Baxter 2012
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Overlooked crime thriller starring Elliot Gould as a mild-mannered teller who gets into trouble when he secretly absconds with part of a fortune missed by a psychotic bank robber (Christopher Plummer).
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SHOCKER OF THE WEEK: Nelson Van Alden, the twisted G-man who enforces his brand of rough justice on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, has us gasping in disbelief as he absconds with the dying witness from the forest massacre and plops him in a dentist's chair.
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"Nobody absconds with and remarkets another artist's plundering of yet another artist's unoriginal work quite like Flo Rida," remarked one admiring industry insider.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It John Baxter 2012
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Overlooked crime thriller starring Elliot Gould as a mild-mannered teller who gets into trouble when he secretly absconds with part of a fortune missed by a psychotic bank robber (Christopher Plummer).
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Different scenarios for what might have happened to her are played out, often with alternative permutations: in one, she falls pregnant and absconds to Arizona; in another, she gets into the car of a stranger who wishes her harm; in yet another there's the suggestion of suicide.
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The married Van Alden's feelings for Margaret start off innocently enough, but when he absconds with her hair ribbon and well, deeply inhales its scent when he's alone, it's clear that Van Alden's kind of a weirdo.
Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon Doesn't Know How Creepy He Can Be 2010
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When the press corps cranes its collective neck to get a better view, the devil turns water in the glass under the lectern to steam, then absconds with his toy piano under one arm and a seashell pressed to his glowing mouth, leaving the president who is not the president trapped in a red room.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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When the press corps cranes its collective neck to get a better view, the devil turns water in the glass under the lectern to steam, then absconds with his toy piano under one arm and a seashell pressed to his glowing mouth, leaving the president who is not the president trapped in a red room.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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