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Recent Examples of abductee
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.
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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
In addition to these criticisms, there are very real concerns that North Korea’s new probe into the abductions will not provide much new information or return any abductees alive.
—J. Berkshire Miller, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2014
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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
In addition to these criticisms, there are very real concerns that North Korea’s new probe into the abductions will not provide much new information or return any abductees alive.
—J. Berkshire Miller, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2014
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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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Noem alleged the three arrestees helped organize the protest and said the trio is being charged with conspiracy to deprive rights in connection with the demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The story follows Jean Valjean, an embittered convict who stole bread to feed his sister’s starving family.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
18 Feb. 2026
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Astronaut John Crichton falls into a wormhole and emerges in a remote galaxy where he's rescued by a sentient spaceship named Moya and its colorful convict crew.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Questions had emerged over the fate of thousands of Islamic State prisoners, and their families in northeastern Syria after government forces last month seized swaths of territory long controlled by Kurdish forces that had been guarding the prisons.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
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The case was dismissed in December 2023 after President Joe Biden granted him a pardon as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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