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The district confirmed a ransom demand but refused to pay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

It’s not a king’s ransom, but hey, it’s free money.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

When one of Christopher’s cohorts is kidnapped and held for ransom, he and the former princess Anya Argen embark on a desperate quest to complete the kidnappers’ challenges and win their friend’s safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Kai Wegner said officials would not cave in to the ransom demand, which came on Thursday evening.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Will they hold us for ransom? wondered Tendai.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Law enforcement organisations tell extortion victims not to pay ransoms as it fuels the criminal ecosystem.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was definitely not cheap paying off these pirates, whether it was ransoms or tariffs.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The payment of ransoms has been outlawed in an attempt to cut the supply of money to the criminal gangs, but it has had little effect.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

Police advice is to never pay hacker ransoms as it encourages the criminal ecosystem.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

"Knights and lordlings, they take each other captive and pay ransoms, but they don't care if the likes of you yield or not."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

King Richard was captured on his way back from the Middle East and ransomed for 150,000 silver marks—approximately three times the annual income of the English Crown.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

This was frightening news, but Olena had heard that the Russians sometimes ransomed detainees for cash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

When Lele Pons was 5 years old, she and her mother, who is Italian and a pediatrician, were kidnapped and ransomed, a common occurrence in some parts of Latin America.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019

Anticipating that the Abu Sayyaf may soon demand the German to be ransomed off, Tan appealed for people to follow the Philippine government’s no-ransom policy.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2016

After twelve years among the Southern Hsiung-nu, Ts’ai Yen was ransomed and married to Tung Ssu so that her father would have Han descendants.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Talmud, a set of commentaries on the Torah, specifically condones ransoming of hostages as a communal responsibility, and many ancient scholars considered being hostage a fate worse than death.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

Experts say the trend towards ransoming sensitive private information could affect companies not just operationally but through reputation damage.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2021

Heinkel and Borelli are accused in a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in late March of improperly impounding Bird’s scooters and then ransoming them back to the $2 billion company.

From The Verge ● Jul. 24, 2019

Simone’s situation sounds dramatic enough to hold an episode of “Homeland” — in fact, the ransoming of Carrie Mathison’s top-secret computer files drove a plot point on the Showtime series last season.

From Fox News ● Oct. 12, 2018

Captain Cox and Basil Ringmore took him with them after the sacking of Hilo in 1679, to come to terms with the Spanish cavalry over the ransoming of a sugar mill.

From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Philip Gosse