as in fastening (on)
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Northern Nigeria is in the grip of a complex security crisis featuring Islamic militants and armed gangs kidnapping people for ransom, a challenge that President Bola Tinubu has struggled to address since he was elected in 2023 after promising to end the crisis.—
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026 -
Hall had been convicted of kidnapping 15-year-old Jessica Roach from Georgetown, Illinois, in September 1993.—
Audrey Abrahams,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
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Another Jefferson County circuit judge, Jessica Green, last year drew local and national criticism after granting shock probation to a 32-year-old man accused of abducting a mother and two children and stabbing the mother during a bank robbery.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
10 Feb. 2026
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Five days later, she was found alive – and authorities arrested a local suspect who was familiar with the family and her grandson’s construction company, abducting her to get $3 million ransom.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 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 10 Feb. 2026.
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