abducted
Example Sentences
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Viet Tan called their arrest a "blatant fabrication intended to conceal the fact that the Viet Tan members were abducted in Cambodia and forcibly taken to Vietnam".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Using tribal power and rigorous detective work, a family of an army officer in Yemen tries to find out how he was abducted in broad daylight, and what happened to him afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Hapoel Jerusalem's club badge now features a silhouette of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted and killed in captivity and whose parents have campaigned for peace through their grief.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In fact, scores of American citizens have been abducted off the street and detained.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
