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Recent Examples of captorLopes said his wife’s captor had misunderstood the amount of crypto Lopes had.—Bruna Horvath, NBC news, 27 July 2025 In June 2005, a 12-year-old girl who had been kidnapped, beaten and missing for a week was found alive after three lions in Ethiopia chased off the captors and protected her.—Mark Gray, People.com, 18 July 2025 With her father’s life threatened, Lisa must find a way to outmaneuver her captor from the confines of a commercial flight.—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025 One episode inverts the tired old scenario in which white explorers are threatened with death by dark-skinned natives; here, the captors are Nordic warrior women.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for captor
At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.
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Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
The survivors watched in terror as their guardian was relieved of his suit.
The estate is custodian of all works and legacy of Tolkien published during his lifetime, and the joint custodian of works published after his death with the Christopher Tolkien Estate.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
The United Arab Emirates, on the other hand, has provided significant support to the RSF, viewing its commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – widely known as Hemedti – as the custodian of Sudan’s gold exports and the path to its plans for port development along the Red Sea coast.
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