hostage

It helps you draw boundaries without being held hostage to accusations of selfishness.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Or that the domestic-romantic subplot dropped into the middle of hostage negotiations doesn’t make for an inelegant construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The three, snatched from their home, became symbols of the Gaza hostage crisis.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Dalit says Shiri Bibas, who was killed along with her two children after being taken hostage, was "like a sister"

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He smiled crookedly, wondering what his father would say when Theon told him that he, the last-born, babe and hostage, he had succeeded where Lord Balon himself had failed.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The commission reviewed more than 10,000 photographs and video segments and collected more than 430 testimonies and interviews with survivors, witnesses, former hostages, experts and family members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

However, with 20 houses renovated or rebuilt, a few former hostages have come back to live here.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The last live hostages were freed a year ago as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal in which Hamas stopped firing into Israel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

And they left hostages like me waiting longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

She had asked Ser Barristan that question the afternoon the hostages went forth.

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other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.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