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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 is a post-apocalyptic tale in which a convict, played by Fischbach, sails an ocean of blood in a submarine in order to search for resources and discovers increasingly terrifying secrets.—
William Earl,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2026
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Johnny Cash played Folsom Prison when respectable artists wouldn’t go near convicts.—
Richard P. Weigand,
Rolling Stone,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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An appeals court had not ruled on Saab's appeal by the time the prisoner swap went through.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, the officer who had called for assistance had succeeded in gaining control of the prisoner by the time his colleagues arrived at his side.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Abductee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductee. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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