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"has been nabbed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is mainly used to indicate that someone has been arrested or apprehended for a crime. For example, "The criminal who robbed the bank last week has been nabbed by the police."
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It sounds like the streaker has been nabbed.
A suspect has been nabbed in the case of the great Bronx Piano Kidnapping.
The atrium balcony outside their newsroom has been nabbed by the Mail's expanding online operation run by Martin Clarke.
This is the third occasion in recent months that an al-Qaeda terrorist has been nabbed in the house of a Jamaat activist or supporter.
Little wonder, then, that boffins are cagey about declaring forthrightly that the most sought-after particle in physics, the Higgs boson believed to be implicated in endowing other subatomic species with mass, has been nabbed.
Now.sc would be very suitable, except that already belongs to the Seychelles, while.sl has been nabbed by Sierra Leone,.sn has gone to Senegal.so to Somalia,.sa to Saudi Arabia, and.st to São Tomé.
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Overall, it appears that Google has been nabbing more violating content than ever before — a result, it says, of new detection techniques and a wider set of guidelines over what is permissible and what is not.
In a just world, we would have been nabbed and sent packing.
He might have been nabbed for more by the referee, Wayne Barnes.
But Paata Zakareishvili, a Georgian analyst, believes he could have been nabbed in Tbilisi.
The salad recipes might have been nabbed from that corner trattoria you stopped going to a few years ago.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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