kidnapper

variants also kidnaper

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of kidnapper During the rescue, one of the doctors is fatally shot by a kidnapper, who is later killed by the French team. Time, 21 Aug. 2025 San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office The Context Stranger abduction is rare, as is news of a kidnapper attacking a mom to abduct her baby. Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 Authorities also do not have any information on the alleged kidnapper. Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025 As in Kurosawa’s film, the friends have swapped clothes, leading the kidnapper to snatch the chauffeur’s son rather than the mogul’s. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025 The kidnapper is played by A$AP Rocky, who has somehow turned Testing into a lifetime headliner slot at Rolling Loud and a legitimate acting career. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 Aug. 2025 Soul music soundtracks David and Paul taking matters into their own hands while searching for Kyle’s kidnapper, who turns out to be an aspiring rapper named Yung Felon, played by an excellent A$AP Rocky. Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025 Washington’s record exec David King believes his son has been kidnapped, only to learn the kidnapper (A$AP Rocky) has mistakenly taken the son of his chauffer Paul (Jeffrey Wright). Thomas Page, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025 In a climactic face-off, King and the angry young musician kidnapper (A$AP Rocky) finally meet. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kidnapper
Noun
  • In the short distance from Gaza to southern Israel, they were transformed in little time from conquered to conqueror, victim to perpetrator, detainee to abductor.
    Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
  • She and the baby's father, her husband Jake Haro, were both interviewed by local TV station KTLA just hours later, and begged for the abductor to return their son.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An unidentified off-duty police officer and two family members were carjacked, and the carjacker suspect fled in the officer's personal vehicle.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Gill was waiting to pick up his wife from work when an armed carjacker opened fire in broad daylight.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Because Paris is a magical place, Belly’s pickpocket takes her backpack directly to a rave without even bothering to open it.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Its front-facing design deters pickpockets, while the water-resistant fabric protects your phone from surprise downpours or sweaty adventure days—because no one wants their phone ruined halfway through a trip.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Back at the Dunwoody Police Department, the cops are unable to identify that shoplifter.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Some have called the city lax for failing to stop shoplifters, cart scofflaws and other signs of crime and deterioration around the full-service Midway grocer, but the St. Paul Police Department reported this week that officers made more than 500 visits to the 1440 University Ave.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025

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