hostage
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It helps you draw boundaries without being held hostage to accusations of selfishness.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
If a 63-hour hostage siege sounds tiresome, it certainly can be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Acled said this includes commanders involved in planning the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the war and killed around 1,200 people with 251 taken hostage.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
A 2025 UN report said that police stations were often underfunded and not fully operational, citing independent sources that accused officers of lacking skills in hostage negotiation and forensic investigation.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Bringing down a woman was not like to awe any northmen, if she knew the breed, and her worth as a hostage was less than naught.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
This anniversary of the attacks is the first with no hostages remaining in Gaza.
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
Ratcliffe has had some success dealing with the Kremlin, such as in helping secure the release of American hostages in Russia, U.S. officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Friday, the two hostages were released, and at 2:30 a.m. the Hendricksons exited the trailer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Wards, we always called them, when Winterfell demanded boys of us, but they were hostages, and none the worse for it.”
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other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.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
In their minds, hostaging means trading -- and trading means talking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Q. Have you expressed that view of hostaging to President Bush?
From Time Magazine Archive
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