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Noun
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Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025 -
Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This one's for the Zoomers, as the uncanny motion-capture animation of Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express creeped out many older audience members.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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The suspects are both repeat offenders who avoided capture for 10 days before authorities caught up with them.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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In Empire City, when a hostage crisis erupts inside New York’s landmark Clybourn Building, firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD wife Dani (Atwell) must fight and navigate their way through the building to rescue the captives.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the bodies did not belong to any of the remaining captives.—
Doha Madani,
NBC news,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Coprisoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coprisoner. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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