Thesaurus results for RANSOMED

ransomed

verb

past tense of ransom

as in saved

to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price the prince emptied the treasury to ransom his son from the kidnappers

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Recent Examples of ransomed After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way. —

Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Her cousins and aunt were ransomed and released in Lebanon; Caroline was taken separately, chosen by an ISIS emir, and has never been found. —

Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025 Further south, shipwrecked sailors were well advised to steer clear of the Diola of the Casamance, who would kill them on sight—until the Diola found out that the sailors could be ransomed. —

Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 Will the jewels be returned, or the tiaras and necklaces ransomed back by a third party? —

John Miller, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025 Perhaps she had been struck over the head and wrapped in fabric and thrown in a crate, to be ransomed. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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On Tuesday, Wahl said the three victims' actions likely saved 140 children, according to Al Jazeera.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
Tom Clancy’s literary all-American action hero Jack Ryan saved the world in quite a few movies − played by a bunch of A-listers – before coming to TV.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2026