captivity

Researchers cannot yet determine whether the animals were tame, kept in captivity, or managed in some other way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

The site now states that his teams have “served” more than 45,000 women and children, “some of whom needed to be rescued from captivity and given a second chance at life.”

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

On Saturday, the state government announced that the Maj Gen Abubakar had died in captivity.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

He also notes that a few hundred red wolves still survive in captivity; conservationists are holding out hope that a place in the wild where they might flourish will one day be found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The fairy was directly beneath the mesh, less than two feet away from captivity.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

They, however, were products of a later age, and had learned many things--good and bad--from surrounding nations or in their captivities, which Moses did not attempt to teach the simple souls that escaped from Egypt.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John

The tale of his wanderings, his captivities, his hairbreadth escapes, and deeds of individual prowess would fill a book.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore

The palisaded meeting-house square, the fortified isolated garrison houses, the massacres and captivities are familiar features of New England's history.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson

Language fails to describe them on their return from the most cruel of captivities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various