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take hostage

verb as in hijack

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The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said their father and brother were also take hostage, and remain captives of Hamas.

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The authorities said he told investigators that he intended to take hostage Ms. Pelosi, long a subject of virulent attacks by right-wing leaders and pundits who have called her an enemy of the United States.

The authorities said he told investigators that he intended to take hostage Ms. Pelosi, long a subject of virulent attacks by right-wing leaders and pundits who have called her an enemy of the United States.

In the run-up to the midterms, Biden wove McConnell’s name into his usual fusillade of warnings about Republicans threatening to take hostage the debt limit - the nation’s borrowing cap that lawmakers will have to suspend or lift later this year.

In the run-up to the midterms, Biden wove McConnell’s name into his usual fusillade of warnings about Republicans threatening to take hostage the debt limit — the nation’s borrowing cap that lawmakers will have to suspend or lift later this year.

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