absconding (with)

verb

present participle of abscond (with)
as in snatching

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for absconding (with)
  1. snatching
  2. capturing
  3. seizing
  4. hijacking
  5. impressing
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  • This tour represents Brooks’ latest effort to push back against music industry headwinds — specifically, spiraling ticket prices and bots or brokers snatching up prime tickets during onsales before fans have access.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Running around snatching pythons out of the jungle isn't my idea of fun, but someone has to do it.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of snatching
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  • Developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania, the system, called Fast Feature Field (F³), processes information from event cameras, which detect changes in light rather than capturing conventional images.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The latest season, currently being aired, depicts a fictional Chinese intelligence agency capturing and torturing some of the Japanese spies.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of capturing
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  • Banks in New York are seizing the opportunity to offer a solution that could shield Chinese customers from their country's tax man.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Even rarer is a series seizing on the opportunity to make a quantum leap several years into its run.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of seizing
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  • One network with the scale to hunt scammers gaming commissions and the plugins quietly hijacking commissions at checkout.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Even the risk of hijacking raw computing power on chips is not new.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of hijacking
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  • After stepping into a bigger role with most of the Heat’s rotation regulars out and impressing in Saturday night’s preseason loss to the Timberwolves, Conwell again made some positive plays on Wednesday.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The interior walls are patterned with motifs ranging from grapevines to geometric forms made by impressing food containers into the concrete.
    — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of impressing
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