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Recent Examples of captorOnce caught, these birds will spend the next few hours with their captors, before being tossed off clifftops after sunrise.—New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2025 The hostage was apparently forced to read a statement by his captors demanding an immediate ceasefire.—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025 The 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 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 See All Example Sentences for captor
The jailer was said to have found blood on Bethea’s underwear when he was asked to disrobe.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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.
The lawsuit named the governor, the director and deputy director of the MDOC, and about three dozen employees, from corrections officers to the warden.
Both the deputy marshal and the suspect were transported to the hospital.
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Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
Los Angeles — Two people were injured, including a US marshal, during an immigration enforcement operation early Tuesday in Los Angeles, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Some have lost a parent or guardian and suddenly must navigate a world that feels uncertain and overwhelming.
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Laura Rivera,
Denver Post,
23 Oct. 2025
Both biological parents and those with parental responsibility over children, including legal guardians and foster parents, would be eligible for the exemption.
But cities tend to be where people go out looking for birds, trying to find them before the rats get them, or before custodians sweep them away.
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NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
The Best Picture winner features Sally Hawkins as Elise, a mute custodian who works in a secret government facility that’s currently housing a strange fish creature (Doug Jones) who’s being studied by scientists and the military.
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