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  • I had set out silverware and stuff, intending to set the table so he could go back to playing a game involving rubber balls and his grabber-nabber.

    Polka Dot Cottage: Spring break 2008

  • However, the nativity nabber had drawn horns on him.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006 2006

  • "In Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, diamond-nabber Bill Mason notes notes a strange security trend: people will spend big bucks to have a whole host ultra-sophisticated locks on their front doors -- but they'll put something flimsy on the back door, or leave the windows unlocked altogether."

    Defense Tech: Lock the back door, too Jim Horning 2005

  • "In Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, diamond-nabber Bill Mason notes notes a strange security trend: people will spend big bucks to have a whole host ultra-sophisticated locks on their front doors -- but they'll put something flimsy on the back door, or leave the windows unlocked altogether."

    Archive 2005-01-01 Jim Horning 2005

  • Dish yer chicken-nabber look lak he dead, but dey aint no bones broked, en I aint see no blood, en needer does I feel no bruise; en mo'n dat he wom en he limber, 'sezee.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Dish yer chicken-nabber look lak he dead, but dey ain't no bones broked, en I ain't see no blood, en needer does I feel no bruise; en mo'n dat he wom en he limber, 'sezee.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Take one Oscar nominee and one Oscar winner, add to them a four-time Emmy nabber, a couple of up-and-coming stars and two relative unknowns, and you have drum roll, please the women of

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • In an unexpected turn of events, the convicted bike-nabber showed up at the Cabbagetown Youth Centre on Monday where nearly 2,000 bikes seized from his property in 2008 were being donated to inner-city youth.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Yang 2010

  • Unfortunately for the young iPhone nabber, the police had a helicopter nearby.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Another rumour is that the disc was never acquired and sold by an amateur, but it was in fact a long term undercover operation run by the Telegraph for some considerable time, carefully planned and executed; and that the stories of the naive disc nabber ringing the news desk in an attempt to sell the "stolen information" are entirely the work of gossip and fiction.

    NHS Blog Doctor 2009

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