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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.
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Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Jan. 2026
After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.
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James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
But for the families of Japanese abductees who remain missing, some of whom were just teenagers when they were taken, there has been no closure or relief.
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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.
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Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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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
But for the families of Japanese abductees who remain missing, some of whom were just teenagers when they were taken, there has been no closure or relief.
—
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abductee
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Using unique identifiers attached to each arrestee, The Post excluded a number of apparent duplicate arrests from its analysis.
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It had been edited, presumably using generative AI, to show the arrestee as weeping uncontrollably.
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The teaser also offers glimpses of Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rebuilds his life as a benevolent industrialist, and Tahar Rahim as Inspector Javert, Valjean’s relentless nemesis.
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Written by Evan Cooper, Blood On The Promontory finds five convicts trying to escape through the mountains following a violent train robbery, while shackled together by foot.
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Alicent and Helaena will be held prisoner until Aemond is found and killed.
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The river has risen again and again, and in 1993, the Mississippi did not go over the levee, at first, but under it, burrowing a tunnel like a prisoner seeking freedom.
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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