captivity

Originating from Greece and other countries, most were dancing bears in captivity, or animals that lived in zoos.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

She runs an organisation supporting other women who have been detained, and, using a secret network, helps send parcels from families to those still in captivity.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

They said they were overwhelmed with joy that Jin, 57 years old, was free after nearly nine months of captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Researchers cannot yet determine whether the animals were tame, kept in captivity, or managed in some other way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

By watching the seasons, he knew he had been in captivity almost a year.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

The captivities and oppressions suffered by Ours would take long to recount, and so I shall give only one.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

It was during their captivities that women often learned the arts and practiced the perilous profession of a scout.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

Compared with it, the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, their passage through the Red Sea and through Jordan, their captivities and returns, would be as nothing.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

These were either voluntary, for purposes of trade and commerce, or the results of conquest, such as the captivities of Assyria and Babylonia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various