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
The IAR said it took a year to persuade the bears' captor to agree to their release.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
Under the fugitive slave laws, the burden of proof belonged not to the captor but to the captured.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2025
“His mother is Gaia! Gai—” Her Laistrygonian captor clamped his hand over her mouth.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Granted sanctuary by the Japanese, who held a foreign concession in the nearby city of Tianjin, Puyi passed “from one set of captors to another.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Yet they proved fearsome captors, armed with long spears tipped with shark teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Savannah Guthrie and her siblings shared an emotional video pleading with their mother’s potential captors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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
That night, I dreamed the salt statues came to life and set on our captors with their swords, but every one of the statues had the face of the dead man.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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