captivity
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This would involve capturing wild animals, breeding them in captivity, and then releasing juveniles back into the wild.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
To make the soup in captivity, keepers mix pine wood chippings from the flies' natural habitat with rain water.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Unmentioned, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, still revered by Iranians, was the first world leader to grant freedom to the Jews, liberating them from captivity in Babylon.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“Today, after more than a year of captivity in Afghanistan, Dennis Coyle is on his way home,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Hannibal’s elephants were, and Asian work elephants are, just wild elephants that were captured and tamed; they were not bred in captivity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing captivity
Charlotte's Web
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1
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"Wild Animals Aren't Pets" and "Let People Own Exotic Animals"
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