captor
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When they escape from their captor, Jack is overwhelmed by the vastness and unfamiliarity of the milieu surrounding him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Before the captor could take title to a vessel, he would have to bring the ship into port and have it condemned before a prize court, which would determine the lawfulness of the capture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Ramia said officers initially seemed engaged with her case, but stopped taking her calls once they identified her captor.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Under the fugitive slave laws, the burden of proof belonged not to the captor but to the captured.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
He did not care about finding his captor, repaying insults, or inflicting eternal punishments.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
On the morning of 11 December 2022, Al-Marimi said his captors gave him a sandwich and some tea and told him to pack his belongings.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Yet they proved fearsome captors, armed with long spears tipped with shark teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The family of the kidnapped mother of a top US TV news anchor made a new plea for information from her captors on Thursday, after investigators said they believed the 84-year-old was still alive.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
In a tearful video posted to Instagram on Wednesday night, Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings begged for the return their mother and seemed open to communicating with her captors about a possible ransom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Ever since Billy had been thrown into shrubbery for the sake of a picture, he had been seeing Saint Elmo’s fire, a sort of electronic radiance around the heads of his companions and captors.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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