absconds
- present tense form of abscond (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She said the rate of absconds was "coming down substantially", with 57 cases in the year ending March 2025 compared to 143 in the year ending March 2020.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
If your investment manager absconds with your tokens, or a merchant fails to deliver what you bought with your bitcoin, you’re on your own.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024
Eventually, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” escapes the Istanbul hotel room and absconds to London, where the story becomes choppier and even more episodic, but also more of a modern-day fairy tale.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022
In beta decay, he speculated, a second, unseen particle emerges with the electron and absconds with a random fraction of the energy.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 29, 2017
Where a debtor absconds and leaves his family, such property shall be exempt in the hands of the wife and children, or either of them.
From Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)
