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as in kidnaped
to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully
the gangsters planned to abduct the industrialist's young daughter and demand a huge ransom from her family
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Recent Examples of abducted
Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Initially convinced that Sheri had been abducted, the two staggered onto a nearby highway and flagged down a car for help.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
But the show here doesn’t belong to his Baldwin, defending—but for a while, failing to see the humanity of—a group of African men abducted for slavery.
—Tomris Laffly, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Corbet played Brian, who suffers memory loss and comes to believe that he was abducted by aliens.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Humphries was abducted by 22-year-old former dental nurse Julie Kelley, who had recently been pregnant at the time.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their Black mothers and raised as orphans in Catholic institutions and homes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Thousands of women and girls were abducted.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Investigators suspect Misch abducted and killed Michaela Garecht, a 9-year-old Hayward girl who had ridden a scooter to a market with a friend to buy snacks and soda.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Initially convinced that Sheri had been abducted, the two staggered onto a nearby highway and flagged down a car for help.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
But the show here doesn’t belong to his Baldwin, defending—but for a while, failing to see the humanity of—a group of African men abducted for slavery.
—Tomris Laffly, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Corbet played Brian, who suffers memory loss and comes to believe that he was abducted by aliens.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Humphries was abducted by 22-year-old former dental nurse Julie Kelley, who had recently been pregnant at the time.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and 1960, thousands of mixed-race children were abducted from their Black mothers and raised as orphans in Catholic institutions and homes.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Thousands of women and girls were abducted.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Abducted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abducted. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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