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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.
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Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Foreign passports and bedding are strewn across the rooms, but both captors and victims are long gone.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Shot over the first days of production, the scene was rigged with cameras on the bonnet of a G-Wagon, capturing chaos as Emma Stone’s character fights back against her would-be captors.
—Tiana Denicola, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Dawod’s captors are asking $250,000 for his release, and Ali doesn’t have that.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Foreign passports and bedding are strewn across the rooms, but both captors and victims are long gone.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Shot over the first days of production, the scene was rigged with cameras on the bonnet of a G-Wagon, capturing chaos as Emma Stone’s character fights back against her would-be captors.
—Tiana Denicola, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Dawod’s captors are asking $250,000 for his release, and Ali doesn’t have that.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for captor
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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