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The phrase "arrested like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are comparing someone's arrest to another person's arrest or situation.
Example: "He was arrested like his brother, who had faced similar charges last year."
Alternatives: "apprehended similarly to" or "detained in the same manner as".
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Police officers who kill should be arrested like any other citizen".
"She said that she did not want to be arrested like a fugitive if she was indicted".
When she got a call that Friday asking her to bring Mustafa's ID to the watchtower, she thought he'd been arrested, "like all the other times".
In her first tentative step into the court system that would swallow her, Borukhova did call the police, but stepped back after Malakov was arrested; like many battered women, she did not press charges.
The two have seen their share of local history — Mr. Gereke remembers when the corner drug dealers got arrested like clockwork every Tuesday, only to return the next morning.
"If there was a cop in that room," he added, referring to the massage rooms where the authorities charge sex acts took place, "they would have been arrested like anyone else".
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Her shop's floor is stark and arresting, like an avant-garde gallery.
The effect is arresting, like one of Giacometti's frozen nudes.
A friend, Renu Srinivasan, 20, was also arrested for "liking" Ms. Dhada's post.
Second protip: stop trying to recommend shows because I like Arrested Development, it stand alone.
An opposition politician and writer, Hussein Haqqani, has been arrested and, like Mr Sethi, is being held incommunicado.
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