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Recent Examples of abductor
The advisory named Elleshia as the alleged abductor, identifying her as a white female who is 5 feet 3 inches and 121 lbs.
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Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
Kathy Curran believes that Molly's abductor may have pretended to be injured.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
However, the search took a dark turn when local police got another 911 call -- from Denise herself, bravely placed using her abductor’s cell phone.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Ekholm wasn’t fully recovered from a torn abductor, either.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Madeleine Feraille-aka Ruth, Yossele’s abductor, a former French resistance fighter who converted to Judaism after WWII.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Here's another exercise to intensely open up the hip through hip abductor motion and engage the glutes.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 17 Sep. 2025
In the short distance from Gaza to southern Israel, they were transformed in little time from conquered to conqueror, victim to perpetrator, detainee to abductor.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
She and the baby's father, her husband Jake Haro, were both interviewed by local TV station KTLA just hours later, and begged for the abductor to return their son.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
Kathy Curran believes that Molly's abductor may have pretended to be injured.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
However, the search took a dark turn when local police got another 911 call -- from Denise herself, bravely placed using her abductor’s cell phone.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Ekholm wasn’t fully recovered from a torn abductor, either.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Madeleine Feraille-aka Ruth, Yossele’s abductor, a former French resistance fighter who converted to Judaism after WWII.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Here's another exercise to intensely open up the hip through hip abductor motion and engage the glutes.
—Mallory Creveling, Health, 17 Sep. 2025
In the short distance from Gaza to southern Israel, they were transformed in little time from conquered to conqueror, victim to perpetrator, detainee to abductor.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
She and the baby's father, her husband Jake Haro, were both interviewed by local TV station KTLA just hours later, and begged for the abductor to return their son.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abductor
Noun
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Advertisement Colman Domingo plays a radio DJ in Dead Man's Wire, the only person the kidnapper will talk to.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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After nearly eight years, the kidnapper brought home another young abductee named Timmy White.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The hijacker was killed when Turkish commandos stormed the airliner and freed the 40 passengers and crew.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.—
Huntley Woods,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Dec. 2025
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An unidentified off-duty police officer and two family members were carjacked, and the carjacker suspect fled in the officer's personal vehicle.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Abductor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abductor. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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