as in to fasten (on)
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Rosalía studied musicology in college, and over the last eight years has often meshed a wide variety of genres and influences in her songs.—
Dan Rys,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025 -
With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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On the morning of December 10, 2024, Armas was abducted from a cafeteria in eastern Caracas.—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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Anyway, back to abducting the president of Venezuela.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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Every single person who's arrived has talked about violence, about dead bodies, about people being killed, about people being kidnapped, about people being kept hostage.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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The fourth is a Thai citizen who was kidnapped during the attack.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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One of the most disturbing sequences on this show is Gacy luring in and entrapping 15-year-old Robert Piest (Ryker Baloun), whose disappearance is where the series starts.—
Derek Lawrence,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Courts have sometimes concluded the government's conduct was outrageous when police have used brutality against a defendant or government agents entrapped a defendant.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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