captivity
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More than 500 of its soldiers remain in Russian captivity, according to Azov commander Denys Prokopenko.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Pandas in captivity typically live for around 30 years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
Public attitudes towards keeping whales in captivity have also changed drastically since Marineland opened in 1961.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Researchers combined DNA analysis with museum specimens, field surveys, citizen science observations, and studies of insects raised in captivity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Set upon by the civet cat, the spy, the eye, the hunger of a superior need, Methuselah is free of his captivity at last.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
Neither is the precise time certain, with respect to these captivities, at which the events occurred which we are about to relate.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
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
Language fails to describe them on their return from the most cruel of captivities.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
The palisaded meeting-house square, the fortified isolated garrison houses, the massacres and captivities are familiar features of New England's history.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
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