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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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In March 1980, 14-year-old Steven Stayner walked into a Ukiah police station with a 5-year-old boy who had recently been kidnapped by his captor.
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
So Diego decided to introduce his former captors to birding, thinking some of them might make good forest guides.
—Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
Except in this case, there were no human captors in sight.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
Nikitin was drugged and brutalized by his captors in the Soviet psychiatric prisons.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
So Diego decided to introduce his former captors to birding, thinking some of them might make good forest guides.
—Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
Except in this case, there were no human captors in sight.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
Nikitin was drugged and brutalized by his captors in the Soviet psychiatric prisons.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026
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 7 May. 2026.
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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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