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Recent Examples of abductee
After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.
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James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
More than 11 years on, at least 91 abductees are still missing or have unknown fates.
—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
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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James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
More than 11 years on, at least 91 abductees are still missing or have unknown fates.
—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
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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Using unique identifiers attached to each arrestee, The Post excluded a number of apparent duplicate arrests from its analysis.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The Mattis ruling in 2024 made more than 200 convicts eligible for parole hearings.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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An escaped convict who shot and killed a state trooper was found hiding in Pennsuco.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The charges follow a military report released in 2020 that found evidence that elite Australian Special Air Service and commando regiment troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and other noncombatants.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Macron’s office denied there was any such agreement about a prisoner swap.—
Sylvie Corbet,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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