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The phrase "about to be caught" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is on the verge of being discovered or apprehended.
Example: "He was sneaking around the corner, fully aware that he was about to be caught by the security guard."
Alternatives: "on the verge of being caught" or "nearly caught."
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Now Pruitt is gone, and Trump is about to be caught with his tactical pants down.
Unlike his father, he is not about to be caught asking for "a splash more coffee".
The other, for critics, is an over-hyped phone manufacturer which is about to be caught up by reality.
Not incidentally, California's formidable network of antitax groups is not about to be caught off guard and is confident about beating back the efforts at the polls.
For example, if both your operating and your capital costs are higher than those of competitors, you're about to be caught in the pricing trap.
It would be pretty miraculous had the striker's team-mates somehow managed to make his phone ring at the precise time he was about to be caught.
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The Yankees were too elated about their success to be caught up in such controversies.
Silber's way of approaching her prose is the literary equivalent of that famous admonition attributed to Spencer Tracy, the one about trying never to be caught acting.
At its core, meditation is just about relaxing and refusing to be caught up in everyday anxieties.
So resumes are verifiable information, it's hugely costly to be caught cheating about your resume.
And yet the worst crime in the Big Brother house is to be caught talking about someone behind their back.
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