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Recent Examples of abductee
More than 11 years on, at least 91 abductees are still missing or have unknown fates.
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Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Koizumi returned to North Korea to meet Kim Jong Il a second time in 2004, during which the family members of several abductees were also allowed to return to Japan.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Since women were akin to territory, bringing back abductees from the enemy country symbolized a retrieval of it.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Alon Ohel, a twenty-four-year-old pianist who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was kept in a tunnel beneath Gaza, along with three other abductees.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Koizumi returned to North Korea to meet Kim Jong Il a second time in 2004, during which the family members of several abductees were also allowed to return to Japan.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Since women were akin to territory, bringing back abductees from the enemy country symbolized a retrieval of it.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Alon Ohel, a twenty-four-year-old pianist who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was kept in a tunnel beneath Gaza, along with three other abductees.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abductee
Noun
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It had been edited, presumably using generative AI, to show the arrestee as weeping uncontrollably.—
Donald Moynihan,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Authorities arrested a person in connection with the shooting, but did not provide more information about the arrestee or the circumstances surrounding the shooting.—
Jessica Flores,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Several times when prosecutors played video from the 2024 shooting in Far Rockaway, his widow Stephanie Diller stepped out of the courtroom, sparing herself the grisly and gruesome details of how her husband and father of her 3-year-old boy died trying to disarm an ex-convict on a busy street.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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Fischbach plays one of the survivors, a convict deemed expendable and thus dispatched to explore an ocean of blood in a rickety submarine.—
Alex Barasch,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Detainees have very little access to due process — prisoners are often judged in mass trials, and lawyers regularly lose track of their clients.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Even a state prisoner on a hunger strike has more rights to make medical decisions.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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