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Chris Pine shows off his surprising fluency in Italian in this film about a pesky tween who convinces an aimless young woman to abduct her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

And hey, did you know that the word “raptor”—which is often used to describe birds of prey—comes from the Latin verb rapio, which means to plunder, rob, ravish, or abduct?

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

He is doubtful that authorities will actually act against those who abduct their children, adding that there is still very little detail about how the joint custody system will actually be enforced.

From BBC ● May 17, 2024

The first attempt to abduct Dot, for example, closely mirrors the sequence in the Coens’ “Fargo” where Jean Lundegaard has her morning routine disrupted by intruders, though Dot proves far more capable of defending herself.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

If I die before deciding whether to press the button, will the sluggers abduct someone else and force them to choose, or will they let the world end?

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

She climbs on his back, whereupon the deceitful Zeus abducts her, bearing her westward across the waters toward Crete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Stree 2, a horror-comedy about a mysterious woman battling a monster who abducts free-thinking women, was the year's second-biggest hit, playing in cinemas for months.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

When the witch returns on that date and abducts Nevena — having rendered her mute in infancy — the young woman embarks on an astonishing, shape-shifting journey of death and discovery.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

The fierce warrior Achilles leads Greek forces in the Trojan War, ignited when Paris abducts Helen of Troy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

This muscle flexes and abducts the humerus, and also rotates it outwards.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

They sympathize with Ukraine’s defenders, its abducted children, its shivering elderly and persecuted Christians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

In a number of cases they had been abducted by Russia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

He denied that doctors were forcibly abducted, telling the BBC that instead they had chosen to stay on to work.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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

“Ah,” I said, and went out to find leaves of the same kind we’d abducted Petey from.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The monk had appeared at a magistrate's hearing to support military intelligence officers accused of abducting Prageeth Eknaligoda, whose cartoons were critical of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

However security is handled, there will be no ICE officers surveying the crowd with facial-recognition software and abducting people for unstated reasons.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

We’ve all seen the appalling videos of masked agents ambushing and abducting these migrants in the halls of New York’s immigration court as they’re leaving a hearing.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026

And in addition to running tales of extraterrestrials’ abducting humans, it published a front-page photo of Elvis Presley lying in his coffin.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

“Before that wight died, he told us why they’ve been abducting so many ymbrynes. They’re going to force them to re-create the reaction that made the hollows in the first place—only bigger. Much bigger.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs