hostage
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One especially noteworthy moment in the 23-minute segment came when Tapper asked if Miller had held his daughter’s blue bunny — which she needs to sleep — hostage.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
It seems like every industry is being held hostage by artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The FBI also sent its own crisis negotiators and even flew in an elite hostage rescue team from Quantico, Va.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Unfortunately, Medicare Advantage plans also benefit by holding doctors’ and hospitals’ money hostage for months, sometimes not paying at all, for care already provided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Nineteen eighty-three brought the B-block takeover and hostage crisis.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
“Once he became Middle East envoy and was given responsibility for the hostages, he became one of the most famous people in Israel overnight,” an Israeli journalist who has covered him told me.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Many of the hostages have now been released.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
He has urged the returned hostages to tell friends and family about their horrific experiences, he says, to discourage them from setting out on the same journey.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Outside in the world, volcanoes erupted, governments rose and collapsed and bartered for hostages, rockets exploded, walls fell.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.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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