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The police in Kothamangalam said Mr Poulos was absconding in the UK, and they had sealed his local offices after receiving complaints from six people.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

It was for this irrational caprice among others that, like a relatively poor man in this jiggling and forward moving box, he was absconding on an economical and flightless journey to nowhere.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

"At any rate he was absconding from Rome, with valuables."

From The Rome Express by Griffiths, Arthur