captive
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Perhaps the only thing that can be said with certainty about Kevin Warsh’s press conference following his first meeting as Federal Reserve chair this week is that he will have a captive audience.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 14, 2026
In contrast to Cricket, who skates along with no end plan, Olympia is a committed careerist, an artist who insists on a captive audience to justify her work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
In a coordinated captive breeding program, conservationists trapped wild cats and bred them under carefully controlled conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Those on the warship were held captive for months, with the incident later dramatised in the 1957 film Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S Amethyst.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
“I also have the largest collection of captive sea monsters in the world!”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Because the country had far less captives, they paid Karamanli $60,000, worth roughly $1.7 million today, but the yearly duties did stop, so there’s that.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The captives are from around Ngoshe, a mainly Muslim community near the border with Cameroon.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
A third video shows Abu Lulu attempting to coerce captives into praising army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
Twenty captives were crossing over Israel’s border to jubilant homecomings, but Bipin wasn’t among them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
She had grown to have some of the nature of an individual, stamped on the simple feelings of the child-queen who had once received her present of captives.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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