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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

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

Cher addresses her daughter-in-law’s allegation that she attempted to abduct her son Elijah Blue Allman from a New York hotel room in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

Aliens abduct me, and she pretends I’m sleepwalking.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Pak Jun Do abducts civilians from Japan, spies on radio broadcasts as a surveillance officer and even steals the identity of a government minister, all while struggling to avoid the prison mines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 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

When the deformity is bilateral, the patient abducts the thigh and rotates the limb outwards at the hip to disguise the deformity, and to allow the projecting knees to pass each other.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

“Maybe you just fell in with the wrong crowd and got abducted by aliens,” Neiden says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Asheville police credit Flock with helping recover hundreds of stolen vehicles, find children abducted by relatives, and advance investigations, including after a July 4th-weekend shooting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu warmly welcomes the successful rescue of 308 Nigerian citizens who were abducted in different attacks in Niger and Kwara states," presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

In fact, scores of American citizens have been abducted off the street and detained.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Someone even suggests that Sandy was abducted by aliens that swooped down and stole him away into the stars.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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

Brueckner then travelled to Braunschweig, where he tried to confront the prosecutors who accuse him of abducting Maddie, but was turned away, the report said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

And Ms Firth introduced a PMB to specifically criminalise abducting cats, dogs, and other common pets.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

Phelps’s husband learned that Anthony had helped his wife escape, and he accused her of abducting his child, but Anthony refused to give him any information about their whereabouts.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling