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• Some preserved incredible details: spiders sitting on webs, birds brooding eggs and even two frogs caught in the act of mating.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• In episode 7, they were even caught in the act by Victor's mom.
  — refinery29.com, 16 June 2021
• Some leaders in the country have voiced support for those caught in the act.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• While the bear wasn’t caught in the act, a wildlife official found eight cars with their doors wide open and signs of rummaging.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2021
• But no star has ever been caught in the act of gulping down a planet this way—until now.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• Even with its remote location, St. Paul Island was caught in the act of eruption in 1793.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2015
• The burglars were caught in the act; the Nixon administration tried to cover up the involvement of key White House aides.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• These may very well be baby galaxies caught in the act of forming, growing.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• At the same time, getting caught in the act of trying to sabotage U.S. democracy has proved costly.
  — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Here was a president caught in the act of trying to get a foreign government to interfere with a U.S. election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
• The mystery persisted until 2011 when the culprit, a male pufferfish just five inches long, was finally caught in the act.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2013
• Prosecutors called the crime a robbery gone wrong, saying that Rose was caught in the act of burglarizing the home and decided to kill the couple rather than flee, according to The News Tribune.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Images obtained by prosecutors reportedly show the pair caught in the act.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2022
• The dog — wagging its tail, furiously enjoying itself while breaking the laws of men — was caught in the act in a video posted by the Subway Creatures Instagram account.
  — Curbed, 30 Aug. 2022
• Occasionally they get caught in the act, and have to make amends (almost always a minuscule proportion of revenues or profits).
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• In 1991, Reubens was charged with public masturbation after he allegedly was caught in the act in a Sarasota, Florida, movie theater.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Ironically, the first oviraptorosaur ever described—Oviraptor itself—was thought to have been caught in the act of a robbing a nest because it was found associated with eggs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2021
• Photographs and videos of mutilated bodies and attackers caught in the act began streaming into the national consciousness.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024