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Chris Pine shows off his surprising fluency in Italian in this film about a pesky tween who convinces an aimless young woman to abduct her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

The first attempt to abduct Dot, for example, closely mirrors the sequence in the Coens’ “Fargo” where Jean Lundegaard has her morning routine disrupted by intruders, though Dot proves far more capable of defending herself.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

"Had James arranged to meet someone to go off to a different life? Or did someone abduct him? There's still questions," said Catherine.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2023

If I die before deciding whether to press the button, will the sluggers abduct someone else and force them to choose, or will they let the world end?

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

She climbs on his back, whereupon the deceitful Zeus abducts her, bearing her westward across the waters toward Crete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Stree 2, a horror-comedy about a mysterious woman battling a monster who abducts free-thinking women, was the year's second-biggest hit, playing in cinemas for months.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

When the witch returns on that date and abducts Nevena — having rendered her mute in infancy — the young woman embarks on an astonishing, shape-shifting journey of death and discovery.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

The fierce warrior Achilles leads Greek forces in the Trojan War, ignited when Paris abducts Helen of Troy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

As regards the posterior portion, it extends the thigh, and abducts it.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

In fact, scores of American citizens have been abducted off the street and detained.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

And we set out to retrace the steps of investigators from the moment they arrived at Nancy’s adobe-brick ranch where she was abducted on Feb. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He was abducted in neighbouring Kenya in 2024 and reappeared in Uganda, where he was brought before a military tribunal until the case was transferred to a civilian court.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 3-month-old boy believed to have been abducted from Northern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Lukwago's family went to court seeking an order compelling security officers, whom they accused of abducting him, to disclose his whereabouts and release him whether "dead or alive".

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

However security is handled, there will be no ICE officers surveying the crowd with facial-recognition software and abducting people for unstated reasons.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

Brueckner then travelled to Braunschweig, where he tried to confront the prosecutors who accuse him of abducting Maddie, but was turned away, the report said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Phelps’s husband learned that Anthony had helped his wife escape, and he accused her of abducting his child, but Anthony refused to give him any information about their whereabouts.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling