as in fastening (on)
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Putin's decades-long rule in Russia has included allegedly orchestrating dozens of murders of dissidents like Alexei Navalny, using the country as his personal piggy bank and kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian children.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Mitchell, now 72, was convicted in 2010 of kidnapping Smart and sentenced to life in prison.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Prior to abducting the girl from her bed, Braddy, now 76, had been severely beating Candy's mother Shandelle Maycock, 22, and choked her to the point of unconsciousness multiple times, according to a brief filed in Florida Supreme Court and obtained by PEOPLE.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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After abducting the man, the kidnappers would become violent, cutting off fingers, ears, or nipples to pressure families into paying ransoms quickly, the Mexican officer says.—
Kevin Maurer,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Now he’ll be tasked with building on that while meshing with two new safeties in Moore and Little.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Uncertain Spacetime Einstein’s general theory of relativity, with its mind-bending revelations about the subjectivity of space and time, has long had issues meshing with quantum mechanics.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Spiriting (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiriting%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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