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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spirited (away or off)
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Best actress Oscar nominee Emma Stone plays Michelle Fuller, a Big Pharma corporate executive who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists, Teddy and Don (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis), who believe Michelle is key to an alien plot to take over the world.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026 -
There’s very little in the way of concrete information, even over a month after Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, was kidnapped.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Mar. 2026
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Many of the kids who go missing are victims of crime – abducted from their neighborhoods, homes and schools, subjected to physical and psychological abuse, and, in some tragic cases, killed.—
Itay Ravid,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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She was abducted over a month ago, and to this day, the police have very few solid leads.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
10 Mar. 2026
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The truck, Prager realized with a sick flash of terror, had been rented under his name.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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Matt Dymoke, the director of Development and Communications at ICA Food Shelf, says Bueckers' donation went a long way towards food and rent help.—
Marielle Mohs,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 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 21 Mar. 2026.
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