hostage
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Maybe I associate too much with loving, devoted parents and not enough with intellectuals who think parents are holding their kids hostage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their last two presidents, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, had left office under the clouds of the Iran hostage crisis, in the case of the former, and Vietnam with the latter.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
It seems like every industry is being held hostage by artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the hostage crisis shortly before 11 a.m. and deployed drones to scout the area where the workers were taken, LaRue said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Jaime ate sparingly and shared a skin of wine with Peck and Hos the hostage.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Burns helped burnish Gannon’s credentials, personally telling the prince that the operative was the American in the room as Israel negotiated with Hamas to release its hostages in the aftermath of the Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
By early Sunday morning, after additional stops in Newfoundland—where a portion of the hostages were released—and Iceland, the plane landed in Paris.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The remaining hostages released on Wednesday were unharmed, police said.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Crisis negotiators were able to negotiate the safe surrender of one of the hostages inside the building, Bakersfield Police Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Outside in the world, volcanoes erupted, governments rose and collapsed and bartered for hostages, rockets exploded, walls fell.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
On the other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2012
Q. Have you expressed that view of hostaging to President Bush?
From Time Magazine Archive
In their minds, hostaging means trading -- and trading means talking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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