hostage
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The special enforcement bureau, which handles high-risk tactical operations like barricaded suspects and hostage situations, has been at the center of several recent controversies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Dinner should not be held hostage by the farmers market.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"This is not fair. You can't be hostage in your own home. This is our farm. This is our home."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Syrsky "has become hostage to the situation," analyst Anatolii Oktysiuk said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
She had the gram and she was holding it hostage in her ridiculous little purse.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
Burns helped burnish Gannon’s credentials, personally telling the prince that the operative was the American in the room as Israel negotiated with Hamas to release its hostages in the aftermath of the Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
By early Sunday morning, after additional stops in Newfoundland—where a portion of the hostages were released—and Iceland, the plane landed in Paris.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
His son was among 110 hostages flown home in January, on a plane organised by the Iraqi government.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Crisis negotiators were able to negotiate the safe surrender of one of the hostages inside the building, Bakersfield Police Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
“Their sellswords will want the gold, though. What are the hostages to them? If the Yunkishmen refuse, it will drive a blade between them and their hirelings.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
On the other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2012
Q. Have you expressed that view of hostaging to President Bush?
From Time Magazine Archive
In their minds, hostaging means trading -- and trading means talking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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