captive
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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Captive renewable projects gain from exemptions on cross-subsidy and certain extra surcharges, providing a more cost-effective and reliable supply of clean power, BMI says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
He returned to Britain, and acted in a number of films in the period after World War Two, including The Captive Heart and Scrooge.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024
Captive bat studies could also help clarify the risk of what’s called reverse zoonosis, in which humans or other animals infect bats with pathogens they could spread far and wide.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2023
“Well, let us continue. You returned to your compartment and read Love’s Captive till—when?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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