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He has designed and installed small concrete shelters for them in the lake itself, and set up his own captive population in a greenhouse at his home in Llanarth.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

In a separate order, the top court on Tuesday ordered tighter welfare safeguards for India's more than 2,600 captive elephants, including ensuring medical records for each animal and regular health checks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Her husband's mother was a spokesperson for the group that took dozens of Americans captive during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

I got bangs once before, months into leaving home for college, and rather than feel captive behind my hair, I felt most myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

My arms have grown wings and I’m almost afraid of going up into the sky, as though I held a couple of captive balloons in my fists.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

The freed captives are currently receiving medical treatment at an undisclosed hospital and will return home at a later date, army spokesman Danjuma Jonah Danjuma said in a statement issued on Friday evening.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

A third video shows Abu Lulu attempting to coerce captives into praising army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

At length, the captives were led into a spacious council chamber.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander