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captivity

[kap-tiv-i-tee] / kæpˈtɪv ɪ ti /


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Einav Zangauker became an outspoken critic of the Netanyahu government while her son, Matan, was in captivity in Gaza.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mr. Shem Tov is author of “Meeting Myself in Hell,” a memoir of his time in captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

A new study suggests that saltwater crocodiles born or raised in captivity may not try to return to their breeding centers once they are released into the wild.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Blondie’s two cubs, believed to be 2 to 3 months old, will spend the rest of their childhood in captivity in the hopes that they can one day be released back into the wild.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

If they would behave themselves in captivity, grizzlies would be a fabulous meat production animal.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

Such illegal captivities were not practicable for long in London.

From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

Organisation and government protection saved the Ohio Associators from such experiments of colonisation as had frequently led to Indian captivities and abandoned settlements in Tennessee and Kentucky.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks

Zere are business for Schlagintwert: I do not mind ze captivities now: business are business.”

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang

It was during their captivities that women often learned the arts and practiced the perilous profession of a scout.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler




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