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- noun Plural form of
captive .; persons held prisoner
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Examples
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To them we are already the "Great Satan", so adding that we pretend to drown our captives is hardly going to recruit anyone who wasn't already coming anyway.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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To them we are already the "Great Satan", so adding that we pretend to drown our captives is hardly going to recruit anyone who wasn't already coming anyway.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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To them we are already the "Great Satan", so adding that we pretend to drown our captives is hardly going to recruit anyone who wasn't already coming anyway.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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To them we are already the "Great Satan", so adding that we pretend to drown our captives is hardly going to recruit anyone who wasn't already coming anyway.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The comparison to WWII captives is ridiculous: captured German soldiers were not trying to get into court to argue that they had not been members of the German army.
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British officials have been criticised for giving the kidnappers of the peace activist Norman Kember time to escape to avoid the risk of a gun battle with Special Forces troops sent to rescue him and his two fellow captives from a house in central Baghdad in March.
Baroness Nicholson is displeased Helen 2006
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The opera, about the liberation of a group of European captives from a Turkish harem, had been commissioned for the new German National Theater in Vienna, an institution founded three years earlier by Emperor Joseph II in order to create an operatic tradition that could rival those of Italy and France.
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Americans are still alive in Southeast Asia, still captives from the long ago war we called the "Vietnam Conflict".
Anspach, Robert A. 1967
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We would see who are the real captives, because these, whom you call captives, are armed captives, with tanks, planes.
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On the day following that in which they were clothed in white and received the chrism of neophytes, they were cruelly cut up and slain with the sword by the above mentioned; and I sent a letter by a holy priest, whom I have taught from his infancy, with some clerics, begging that they would restore some of the plunder or the baptized captives; but they laughed at them.
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