hostage crisis

noun

: a situation in which someone is holding people as hostages

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Carter had been weakened by the Iran hostage crisis, which had riveted the country for the previous year, but the Reagan campaign worried that if Carter secured a hostage release just before voters headed to the polls, the election would be his. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

The City Council, business and civic leaders, and even the interested public should all have been called on and informed about every effort to find a solution to the parking meter hostage crisis. — Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026

Surely the demise of America’s most strident ideological foe, ten years after the humiliations of the Iranian hostage crisis, called for greater attention? — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

Billy Gallegos, a prisoner of war during the Iranian hostage crisis, the day carries deep personal significance. — Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 25 May 2026

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