captivity
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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
Gloria Steinem once quipped: "I can't mate in captivity" - a reference to her disinterest in marriage.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Speaking at the celebrations, Damari's mother Mandy spoke about the 471 days her daughter was held in captivity, and told the couple that their nuptials "means more to me than just a wedding".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
As Koschei the Deathless stirs from millennia-long captivity, powerful allies close in to reclaim the human lands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“The only whale sharks in captivity in the world,” he mused.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
Bar 2:30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
The early annals of the West are full of the sad stories of such captivities, and of the women who took part in these terrible scenes.
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
Compared with it, the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, their passage through the Red Sea and through Jordan, their captivities and returns, would be as nothing.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker
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
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Charlotte's Web
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