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Recent Examples of abductee
Early last year, Mr. Shoham’s father, Gilad Korngold, was among a group of relatives of hostages who burst into an Israeli Parliament meeting to demand action on the abductees.
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Natan Odenheimer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
This time, McKinnon's fellow abductees were portrayed by Pedro Pascal and Woody Harrelson, who both chuckled at points throughout as they were questioned by Jon Hamm and Aidy Bryant.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Kate McKinnon’s man-spreading, smoking character starts out with an, ahem, trashier version of alien abduction than the beautiful, cosmic experience of her fellow abductees, and her description of the incident only gets more deranged.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2016
Japan is currently making efforts of its own to transition from a peripheral player in the Korean peninsula, narrowly focused on its own abductee issue, to a responsible stakeholder capable of building regional peace.
—Jung-Chul Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2015
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Natan Odenheimer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
This time, McKinnon's fellow abductees were portrayed by Pedro Pascal and Woody Harrelson, who both chuckled at points throughout as they were questioned by Jon Hamm and Aidy Bryant.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Kate McKinnon’s man-spreading, smoking character starts out with an, ahem, trashier version of alien abduction than the beautiful, cosmic experience of her fellow abductees, and her description of the incident only gets more deranged.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2016
Japan is currently making efforts of its own to transition from a peripheral player in the Korean peninsula, narrowly focused on its own abductee issue, to a responsible stakeholder capable of building regional peace.
—Jung-Chul Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abductee
Noun
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This show's arrestee was out of the bag.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Nov. 2025
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Money bail became more common around the turn of the 20th century with the rise of commercial bail bonds, in which a bail bond business would front the bail money, charging the arrestee a portion of the bail amount as a fee.—
Christine Scott-Hayward,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Under the ceasefire terms, Hamas released all living hostages in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian convicts and wartime detainees, while Israel pulled back its troops and halted its offensive.—
Maayan Lubell,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Directed by Love at First Sight’s Vanessa Caswill and written by Verity’s screenwriter Lauren Levine alongside Hoover, Reminders of Him follows an ex-convict who hopes to reconnect with her daughter in her small town, following the death of her husband.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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