Thesaurus results for HIJACKER

hijacker

noun

as in stowaway

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Recent Examples of hijacker The incident, which was part of a double-whammy of violent encounters for the hijacker that day, was preventable and should have been better controlled, according to a wrongful-death suit filed by Jazzmyn Byrd, the daughter of a man who was shot during the hijacking. —

Alex Nettles, AJC.com, 11 June 2026 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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stowaway

Noun

There was defender Jules Koundé, who toted a Louis Vuitton monogrammed duffel, followed by forward Ousmane Dembélé, who sported an Hermès Haut à Courroies—sometimes referred to as an HAC—in black leather and big enough to carry a stowaway.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026
One such incident occurred on Christmas Eve in 2024, when stowaway Shemaiah Patrice Small slipped past TSA and a gate agent before she was discovered in someone else’s seat on the Delta Airlines aircraft, CNN reported.

— Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 7 June 2026