absconded

past tense of abscond

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Recent Examples of absconded In late May, Abarca’s ex-wife, Alexis Garcia, revealed that her husband had absconded with their then 2-year-old son after an argument and had not been seen for five days. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025 Tom Phillips absconded with his three children in 2021 after an alleged dispute with their mother. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025 Historically, when Democrats have absconded, Republicans have issued state arrest warrants—a symbolic gesture, since the lawmakers had already left Texas—and imposed fines to compel them to return. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025 The Hallfords then absconded to Oklahoma but were arrested in November 2023. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for absconded
Verb
  • So the manager went back to Whitlock for a second inning of work in the eighth and Whitlock nearly escaped before running out of steam.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Staff said the python likely escaped its home and asked for help finding the snake’s owner.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Fatima Yousufi, a former player for the Afghanistan national soccer team who fled to Australia, said her family had been trying to reach her aunt, a single mom who relies on money sent from abroad to feed her four children.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The film was inspired by and is dedicated to director Maryam Touzani’s grandmother, part of the large Spanish community in Tangier that had fled the Franco regime and settled in the Northern Moroccan city in the 1930s.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Absconded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absconded. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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