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Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
Officers were responding to a 911 call reporting a carjacking robbery in North Dallas about 20 minutes earlier.
—Samara Gerstle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
He’s also believed to be linked to three carjackings, Walsh said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
Police said that on Wednesday, around 3 a.m. in the 200 block of South Cicero Avenue, officers observed two people standing next to a vehicle involved in a carjacking.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
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Expand All The husband of a South Florida woman murdered in a bizarre carjacking last year pleaded guilty Thursday to being connected to a money-laundering conspiracy that was uncovered after her murder.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
Officers were responding to a 911 call reporting a carjacking robbery in North Dallas about 20 minutes earlier.
—Samara Gerstle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
He’s also believed to be linked to three carjackings, Walsh said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
Police said that on Wednesday, around 3 a.m. in the 200 block of South Cicero Avenue, officers observed two people standing next to a vehicle involved in a carjacking.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carjacking
abduction
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Kevin — whose 45th birthday is Saturday — remains missing, a rare unsolved case of an infant abduction by a stranger, one of about a dozen such cases still active across the country, according to Angeline Hartmann, spokesperson for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2025
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The Amber Alert system is a child abduction emergency alert protocol used throughout the United States to enlist public assistance in locating missing and endangered children.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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“Carjacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carjacking. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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