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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

It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Instead of doing the one natural thing, Don Manuel abducts his sweetheart during the night, with her consent, and takes her to a garden in Messina.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

"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

I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Lukwago's family went to court seeking an order compelling security officers, whom they accused of abducting him, to disclose his whereabouts and release him whether "dead or alive".

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

“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