captive
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Hubbard's family and lawyers have said he was living in the Ukrainian city of Izium when he was taken captive by Russia in 2022.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
From November onwards, all captive birds at Castle Espie will be transferred to other WWT sites across the UK.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Melissa Matlow, a spokeswoman for World Animal Protection Canada, says that worldwide there are about 3,600 captive cetaceans – a group of marine mammals which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Put into shackles and forced to labor in the limestone quarries of Syracuse, the captive characters speak in a working-class Dublin dialect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The captive princess caught their attention and they looked curiously at her.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Though the first African slaves in Virginia arrived in 1619, comparatively few black captives came to the English colonies of the North American mainland during the period covered in “Contested Continent.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Sunday morning, the military released videos and photos of the freed captives as they sat under trees overnight.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
One sculpture transforms the European hero Robin Hood into an African bandit queen who raided slave traders and freed their captives.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 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
"Qhorin said nothing of taking captives," said Stonesnake.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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