captivity
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The births follow the zoo's success last November in breeding the Atewa slippery frog, another critically endangered species from the same forest, which had also never been bred in captivity before.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Researchers combined DNA analysis with museum specimens, field surveys, citizen science observations, and studies of insects raised in captivity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
More than 5.3 million soldiers from the Soviet Red Army were held in German captivity during World War Two and half are thought to have died.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Mr. Shem Tov is author of “Meeting Myself in Hell,” a memoir of his time in captivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Massasoit had kept Tisquantum in a kind of captivity since his arrival, monitoring his actions closely.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
One of the later captivities was that of Israel Donolson, who has told the story himself.
From Stories Of Ohio by William Dean Howells
The early annals of the West are full of the sad stories of such captivities, and of the women who took part in these terrible scenes.
From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler
Such illegal captivities were not practicable for long in London.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
Bar 2:30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
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