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ransom

noun as in blackmail money paid for return of possession or person

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The money is believed to have been a ransom payment, the relative said.

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If you don’t follow New York sports, a Jets or Giants reference there would have left some ambiguity, but a Yankees one means that Musk will get his ransom.

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"We regularly hear reports from migrants about being kidnapped, being held for ransom, suffering abuse and assault" in Libya, Pope said during an interview in Rabat.

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On Wednesday the University of Virginia signed an agreement with the Justice Department that pauses all federal investigations against the school, without an enormous ransom or coercive new mandates.

"There was one that got killed because he couldn't pay the ransom. His family could not meet the time given," says Mr Muhammed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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