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Recent Examples of ransomedPerhaps she had been struck over the head and wrapped in fabric and thrown in a crate, to be ransomed.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Electronics Finds like televisions, vintage type writers, dial phones, and vintage radios may have been saved by the homeowners for the sake of nostalgia, but might not actually work anymore.
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Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
Because everything was kept in one place, when the user saved the system state to a floppy disk, their entire workspace was frozen and stored in its entirety.
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