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So, it is disequilibrium behavior — as long as everyone pays, there is no need to kidnap anybody.

Face recognition, used with careful limitations, could help identify children who’ve been kidnapped or trafficked.

Cut through zip tiesImagine you’ve been kidnapped and bound with zip ties!

Days later, seven-year-old Fátima Aldrighett – kidnapped while waiting for her mother to pick her up from school – was found naked in a plastic bag.

Concerned she’d been kidnapped, people across Mexico mobilized to find her.

As long as there are states willing to negotiate payments with groups like ISIS, there will be a financial incentive to kidnap.

This matters for trafficking because it costs a lot to kidnap someone and hold her against her will.

This man was taken from Libya and it is not legal to kidnap people from Libya.

As a result, Bo sent several hundred armed police to surround the U.S. Consulate, attempting to kidnap Wang.

The CIA, he says, could “render” (i.e., kidnap) him at any time, which is highly unlikely but not symptomatic of the paranoid.

Most exquisite Chiffinch, thou art turned micher as well as padder—Canst both rob a man and kidnap him!

As the sergeant departed he warned Mr. Traill, laughingly, that he meant to kidnap Bobby the very first chance he got.

Two gentlemen of this city were eminently, but secretly, active in their attempt to kidnap their victim.

Mr. Traill fixed an accusing eye on the soldier, remembering suddenly his laughing threat to kidnap Bobby.

The Federal Judges sought to kidnap the citizens of Boston and to punish all such as opposed man-stealing.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kidnap, such as: capture, hijack, seize, snatch, steal, and coax.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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