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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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The men were subjected to various abuses by their captors, such as theft and beatings, and many personal effects were tossed overboard.
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Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
But Trisha manages to overcome both her opium haze and her captor with not one, not two, but three bonks with a candlestick.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
This sequel to a 2022 indie darling casts you as a Sleeper, a robot worker fleeing their gang-boss captor.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said in a statement on November 23.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
But Trisha manages to overcome both her opium haze and her captor with not one, not two, but three bonks with a candlestick.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
This sequel to a 2022 indie darling casts you as a Sleeper, a robot worker fleeing their gang-boss captor.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said in a statement on November 23.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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