ransomer

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Noun
  • The biggest ovation of the night came when Keon Ellis, who has fallen out of the rotation despite being one of the team’s best defenders and 3-point shooters, entered the game for the first time at the start of the fourth quarter.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Last season’s Most Improved Player was the primary defender on Dončić, who was held to 22 points on 7-of-17 shooting from the field in 27 minutes.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where a book a day keeps the bombs away.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Dambo’s trolls are forest protectors but in a far more tender way.
    Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The newest season showed Renner's character Mike McLusky confronting a gang war and contending with a headstrong new warden, played by Falco.
    Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Nina Hobbs (Edie Falco), the season's new warden, is collapsing under the weight of her debt to the Colombians, who've forced her into doing their dirty work.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Overpayments and underpayments occur when changes to employees’ salaries or benefits occur after the payroll cutoff date, said Bismarck Obando, a spokesperson for the controller’s office, which is the custodian of the state’s payroll records.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Taking Back the Control For a long time, the simplest way for a business to hold digital assets was to trust a third-party custodian.
    K.H. Koehler, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Photos, Videos, Journals, and Scrapbooks While old photos, journals, handwritten notes, and other personal archives may not mean much to you at the time, check with family members to see if anyone wants to be the keeper of memories.
    Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Marquette kid Kolek — more and more of a keeper, a wonderful old expression used by an old Marquette coach named Al McGuire — had five assists in 14 minutes.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • She’s accompanied by a chaperone/warder, Loti (Céline Menville), a Frenchwoman who has a mean way with a dagger, and cabin boy Blaster (Kayden Price).
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
  • Singh hails the series’ secondary and tertiary cast, who played warders and prisoners.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Peacock series follows Alexander Hale (Simu Liu), an intelligence analyst with The Orphanage, an organization that serves as a watchman for the United States intelligence communities.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Désir explained the various Gede spirits, like Baron Samedi, the spirit that takes souls to the afterlife and Brav Gede the watchman of the graveyard.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Before her death, Goodall wrote an open letter — shared with PEOPLE by Animals Asia — about her decision to become Robinson's guardian.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Donors should be in good health with no cold, flu, or COVID-19 symptoms, and must be at least 17 years old, or 16 with a parent or guardian’s consent.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
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“Ransomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ransomer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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