hostage
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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
The Foley Foundation, another US-based hostage advocacy group, said Chen's health is a concern, noting that he suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
You should not be held hostage to other people’s emotional drama or debts.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
"We are seeing certain countries holding the process hostage as vulnerable people suffer heat stress, and king tides and storms, drought and famine," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
I refuse to be held hostage like this—not when Rhiannon will soon be waiting for me.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
“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
Crisis negotiators were able to negotiate the safe surrender of one of the hostages inside the building, Bakersfield Police Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
I staged a loud conversation with Professor McGonagall about the hostages who had been taken, and whether Potter would think to use gillyweed.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations’ crimes.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
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