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kidnapper

[kid-nap-er] / ˈkɪdˌnæp ər /
NOUN
abductor
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The videos, recovered by Google engineers, provided the first look at Guthrie’s kidnapper and last less than a minute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

The family has released two previous videos saying they are willing to speak with the potentail kidnapper, and asking to provide proof that her mother was alive.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Rather than risk a military confrontation, they forced American troops to play the role of the sleazy kidnapper sneaking in windows.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

Bill Skarsgård plays the kidnapper, and the rest of the cast includes Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

Besides, she didn’t look like she could be part of a gang or some kind of kidnapper ring, so we followed the sweet-voiced woman as she led us deeper and deeper into the brush.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

As played by Ms. Anderson, Dayle is deliciously insouciant, implicitly lethal, and knows how to deal with both kidnappers and the parents of the missing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Nigeria is not safe -- terrorists, kidnappers, bandits everywhere," said Becky Alegbe, a street vendor in Abuja.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her,” she said, reading a statement directed at the kidnappers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Over the course of months, investigators made a couple of detentions and conducted a few searches as the Guthrie family made a series of emotional pleas to the kidnappers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Although Sefia never left Oxscini, she spent the next year roaming the Forest Kingdom, searching in vain for signs of Nin or her kidnappers, growing tough and strong in her solitude.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee


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