abductee

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Recent Examples of abductee Now the actors, who work as game masters and perform as distressed abductees at the venue, will be frightening their guests while under union protection. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Effective verification would likely entail having the abductor — or abductee — provide a unique piece of information only a handful of people would know. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026 But for the families of Japanese abductees who remain missing, some of whom were just teenagers when they were taken, there has been no closure or relief. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 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 See All Example Sentences for abductee
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Noun
  • In Palatine, after a police officer helped agents physically restrain an arrestee in front of an angry crowd, his department said the cop’s actions were a necessary response to deescalate a tense situation.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout this process, every arrestee is presumed innocent — and because of that, First Appearance is not about punishment, despite some misconceptions.
    — Corey B. Friedman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Buchanan, 72, had been incarcerated since 2004 for kidnapping a convict who was harassing a corrupt prison guard.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • After a career spent playing convicts and criminals, the opportunity was appealing to Trejo.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Archival television interviews feature soundbites of Odeh expressing sympathy for the terrorists’ demands that Israel release Palestinian prisoners — although those broadcasts ignored the fact that Odeh had actually condemned the hijacking.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • From the very start, the students assigned as guards went on cruel power trips and repeatedly humiliated — if not psychologically tortured — the inmates, to the point that some of the prisoners suffered nervous breakdowns.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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