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Recent Examples of abductee from the Web
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Nintendo 1 Peach Peach, the perennial princess abductee in Nintendo's Mario series, is the quintessential damsel in distress, a controversial trope that's existed in forms of pop culture since antiquity.
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Thousands of abductees have been thrust, untreated, into communities that are not equipped to tend to their wounds.
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The rhythm of camp life enveloped the new abductees.
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That life was life as an abductee, life as a slave.
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The experience of the African abductees in the war was more tragic.
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Their abductees play an unspoken role in John and Evelyn’s relationship, but Young never puts all his cards on the table.
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Boko Haram leaders should ensure the safe release of children and all other abductees.
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Her most recent book, Sewing Hope, profiles a Ugandan nun who harbors the former abductees of terrorist Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
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First Known Use of abductee
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