as in kidnaping
the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal
discredited reports of abductions by aliens
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Recent Examples of abduction
Ukrainian police and prosecutors have opened a war crimes case over Hubbard's abduction.
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Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
He had previously been charged with child abduction and child enticement, according to McClatchy News reporting.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.
—Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
The Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, which was tracking the abductions, had counted more than 30,000 children taken from Ukraine to Russia and Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
He had previously been charged with child abduction and child enticement, according to McClatchy News reporting.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.
—Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
The Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, which was tracking the abductions, had counted more than 30,000 children taken from Ukraine to Russia and Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abduction
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An Alabama man convicted of a 2010 rape and murder on Thursday with a three-drug injection.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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Dana Martin, then an inmate at a prison in Las Cruces, N.M., was already serving two life sentences for the 2000 rape and murder of 15-year-old DeAndra Florucci.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Abduction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abduction. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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