ransom
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The government has intensified actions to curb kidnapping, including introducing measures aimed at discouraging ransom payments.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
The British Library, where I wrote several books, declined to pay such a ransom in 2023; its systems still have not completely recovered, but basic library operations continue.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The ransom deal included the release of dozens of Islamist extremists imprisoned in Mali.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
It can't hold the world to ransom, as it were.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
In the infamous Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder case, in 1924, investigators had correctly detected similarities between Leopold’s typed school notes and the typed ransom note.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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