Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spirited (away or off)
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The mother of baby Emmanuel Haro, who claimed he had been kidnapped, pleads guilty to his death.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026 -
While Lala and Gibbs are enjoying their cute moment, and the team is celebrating its rebranding to NCIS, their colleague Randy (Caleb Foote) is kidnapped by unknown assailants.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 May 2026
Verb
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At a time when the United States had just abducted a Venezuelan dictator, was threatening Greenland, and was planning a war in Iran, a serious DNI would have had other priorities.—
Andreas Kluth,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
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Blunt and O'Connor's characters appear to become possessed or abducted by aliens.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
28 May 2026
Verb
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Liden’s passageways were most likely rented, judging from the contact information for a Berlin scaffolding company taped to the wall inside one of them.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Claire Valdez rents her Ridgewood two-bedroom apartment and is running to take over Nydia Velázquez’s open congressional seat in District 7, which is, like most of the city, a constituency that’s majority tenant.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
2 June 2026
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At least one person was entrapped in the wreckage, according to the Forney Police Department.—
Steven Rosenbaum,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Stevenson insists that the goal of the Legacy Museum is not to present Alabama as irredeemably racist or forever entrapped by its past.—
Clint Smith,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Spirited (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirited%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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