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Recent Examples of hijacker
The hijacker was killed when Turkish commandos stormed the airliner and freed the 40 passengers and crew.
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hijacker
stowaway
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Svetlana Dali, a mentally ill stowaway who sneaked onto a flight to Paris last year, is back to her plane-hopping ways.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Dali, who previously was convicted in Brooklyn federal court of being a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight out of New York's JFK Airport to Paris, allegedly snuck onto a United flight at New Jersey's Newark airport on Wednesday night, law enforcement sources told ABC News.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Hijacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hijacker. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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