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Recent Examples of captorThe elder Hall’s indifference toward his son’s life shocks even his captor, prompting a bonding moment that softens the viewer’s perceptions of both men.—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025 The model was held captive for several days and left the farmhouse once with her captors to visit a local hiking shop and grocery store — a detail Ayling would later omit from her police interview.—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Hermit gets knocked around in the melee, first by the monster and then by its would-be captor, the mysterious Maginot cyborg Morrow.—Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025 Making amends After escaping his captors, regaining his talismans, tracking down the rogue Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), and dealing with a Vortex, S2 finds Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) rebuilding the Dreaming, which had fallen into disrepair during his long absence.—ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for captor
Press freedom groups rank China as the world's top jailer of journalists, with 112 journalists and media workers currently behind bars, alongside another eight in Hong Kong in the wake of Beijing's imposition of a national security law there in 2020.
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Ashish Valentine,
NPR,
30 Sep. 2025
China is the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, with at least 124 media workers behind bars, RSF said.
The Norwegian striker first looped the ball over the keeper to give City the lead before later leaping highest to power home for his second after Monaco had equalised through a brilliant Jordan Teze finish.
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Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Lester Smith, who had been working at Abbey Road since 1970, was the keeper of Abbey Road’s microphone collection, which then totaled eight hundred–plus — all of them kept in good repair and still used to this day.
Brian Carter, Paragould's fire marshal, announced his bid for the seat in July.
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Ella McCarthy,
Arkansas Online,
26 Sep. 2025
Boat parade marshal is NB native Actor and Newport Beach native Ted McGinley is this year’s grand marshal for opening night of the 117th annual Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade.
Comey was, and is, doing what that NASA custodian was doing – serving his country with passion and pride.
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Billy Ray,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
On May 18, 2022, Baker filed an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant for Skeet and three of his ranch hands, including Leroy Medlin, the county custodian at the time.
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