captured

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Japanese authorities have sedated and captured a black bear, days after it was spotted roaming around a city near Tokyo.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

GM created GM Energy back in 2022, but the business has not captured Wall Street’s imagination the way Ford Energy just did.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

It took me a few reads to really be captured by her, but when I was, she took hold.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

In the Middle East, the Turks had suffered a series of defeats by the British, who captured Baghdad in March 1917 and Palestine in September 1918.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman