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captive

adjective as in physically held by force

adjective as in mentally enchanted, held

noun as in person held physically

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For seven years, Loomis was held captive in Joe Turner’s chain gang, abducted for being Black, forced into hard labor and separated from his wife, whom he has been searching for since his release.

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The Israeli military told AFP that a forensic analysis revealed the bodies were not those of any of the 11 deceased captives still to be handed over as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal.

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After the start of this month's ceasefire, Hamas returned the 20 surviving captives still in its custody and began the process of returning the bodies of the dead hostages.

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The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.

The RSF fighter then shot the captive several times using an automatic rifle.

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