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US
/ˈnæb/
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[ UK /nˈæb/ ]
[ UK /nˈæb/ ]
VERB
- tag the base runner to get him out
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take into custody
the police nabbed the suspected criminals - seize suddenly
How To Use nab In A Sentence
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- So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
- OK, the steering is a little foggy, but the wheel unquestionably feels pleasant under the fingers. Times, Sunday Times
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- Jane's language skills enabled her to forge ahead on the career ladder.
- This can often create a lot of noise, reducing the quality of image obtainable.
- If you accept that you have to do mass education - and, to keep costs low and for a lot of other reasons, I think that's not an unreasonable conclusion - you have to systematize it.
- Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
- This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.