kidnap

Faced with the threat of kidnap, Karl sought to look as though he was homeless.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Wrote another, of the scammers: They “basically psychologically kidnap you.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

"I thought they were going to kidnap us. I ran to a taco stand to take cover with the people there," Medina told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

At the same time, bald eagles were rumored to sometimes kidnap human babies and fly away with them in their talons.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

“How would you kidnap an immortal goddess? Is that even possible?”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

When a Frenchman kidnaps a woman from the rival town, his mother and her fellow villagers react with outrage and indignation, less at the abduction itself than at his apparent interest in a German woman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

A changeling is what a fairy or demon or troll leaves behind when it kidnaps a human baby.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

The Ramayana depicts the victory of Hindu god Ram over the demon king Ravana after the latter kidnaps his wife, Sita.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2023

“This case shows that the Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to track down anyone who kidnaps a U.S. citizen abroad,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022

Sarah and Jack and the clover elves are just about to celebrate their victory over the troll army when an ogre kidnaps Jack and sweeps him off to the hobgoblin king’s castle.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office identified the remains as that of Sharon Lee Gallegos, who was reported kidnaped on July 21, 1960, thanks to advanced DNA technology.

From Fox News ● Mar. 16, 2022

The multi-state search for her and the five-year search for who reportedly kidnaped her diverted resources from other cases, Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson said.

From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2022

West German elation at Hamadei's arrest quickly dissolved when Cordes, then Schmidt, was kidnaped.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Duarte struck a deal with the rebels for the release of his kidnaped daughter in October 1985, his relations with some top officers suffered.

From Time Magazine Archive

No use saying they were honest workingmen kidnaped to sea.

From The Blood Ship by Norman Springer

The actor directs and stars in a film about a Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose son is seemingly kidnapped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He has described himself as a "prisoner of war" and said the US military kidnapped him.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

US journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, was kidnapped in a calculated operation which was more than a month in the planning, the BBC can reveal.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The “Today” show co-host during Tuesday’s broadcast shared a desperate message to those who kidnapped 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her Tuscon home in February.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Had the government kidnapped those kids in Arizona who had the same names and birthdays as Chess, Emma, and Finn?

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Pankey’s attorney, Anthony Viorst, countered that prosecutors’ circumstantial evidence, Pankey’s overbearing personality and his obsession with “true crime” mysteries is not enough to convict him of kidnaping and murder.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

The Foleys also said some responsibility lies with American members of the media who failed to continue reporting on Foley's kidnaping, letting it fall out of the news cycle.

From US News ● Feb. 26, 2015

He stumbled last year with Patriot Games, a frippery in which his customary hero, the supercool CIA man Jack Ryan, saved a British royal child from kidnaping.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. has also resorted to kidnaping of a sort, most famously during the 1985 midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by fighter planes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had never been quite sure about Major de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The defence says the militia group staged an illegal kidnapping when diplomatic negotiations stalled, in a process which showed "an utter disregard for Libyan law and sovereignty."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Three Egyptian security officials have been convicted by a Rome court over the kidnapping of an Italian student whose tortured body was found in Cairo a decade ago.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Director Pedraza eventually has to cover other less feverish territory, namely the real plot behind Marfil’s kidnapping and the involvement of her father with Russians, who have come back into vogue as all-purpose villains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Not long after, after townsfolk thwarted an attempted kidnapping of a local grower, hundreds of people gathered in the sun-bleached central plaza and drafted a communique.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

It’s estimated that fewer than 50 American children are kidnapped each year by strangers, and the incidence of kidnapping is thus about one in 5 million, resulting in a safety index of 6.7.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos