abductee

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Recent Examples of abductee Fear Not, slated for 2027, will tell the story of prolific serial killer Stephen Morin and Margy Palm (Hathaway), a Texas woman who was his last abductee. Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026 After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White. James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026 Koizumi returned to North Korea to meet Kim Jong Il a second time in 2004, during which the family members of several abductees were also allowed to return to Japan. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025 Alon Ohel, a twenty-four-year-old pianist who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was kept in a tunnel beneath Gaza, along with three other abductees. Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abductee
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Noun
  • Using unique identifiers attached to each arrestee, The Post excluded a number of apparent duplicate arrests from its analysis.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • It had been edited, presumably using generative AI, to show the arrestee as weeping uncontrollably.
    Donald Moynihan, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Despite the obvious danger to the convicts, Jackson underscored how popular the spectacle was.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026
  • The Wu-Tang Clan founder directed, wrote and produced the revenge thriller that follows an ex-military convict (Shameik Moore) seeking redemption in a small town.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Imagine if Jeff Bezos got bored just owning The Washington Post, firing hundreds of writers and squashing the freedom of its opinion section, and decided to join the American forces parachuting into Venezuela or Iran, only to ignore their orders and seize some prisoners on his own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Perhaps even darker is this novel about a girl and 39 women held prisoner in a bunker.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 20 May 2026

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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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