captive
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As for the passengers, it’s hard to turn down fine wine when you’re captive, bored and often in vacation mode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The second note was apologetic, saying that she had died while captive and was "buried in nature now."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
He's despatched messengers on horseback to free Harold who has been taken captive in France.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Perhaps the only thing that can be said with certainty about Kevin Warsh’s press conference following his first meeting as Federal Reserve chair this week is that he will have a captive audience.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 14, 2026
The patrol and its stumbling captive headed back to the road, slanting off toward the Weylin house.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Because the country had far less captives, they paid Karamanli $60,000, worth roughly $1.7 million today, but the yearly duties did stop, so there’s that.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
But somewhere along the line, economics was all but consumed by math, and things everybody had always known—that humans are fickle, emotional, bad at reasoning, captives of their prior mistakes, etc.—were forgotten or cast aside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Two years ago, Ranaan set up a tent in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square and began offering support to the families of the captives held in Gaza.
From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025
Twenty living hostages and the remains of 24 deceased captives have been released, with four bodies remaining in Gaza.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
As for the captives, well, the Long Knives kept them for a while, then let them go.”
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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