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The men fought their captors and escaped.
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Elsewhere in the hotel, Serena, Demetrius and Derek dodge their armed captors and find a way to escape.
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Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
Along with his countrymen Joan de Diego, Casimir Climent and others, Spanish survivor Joaquín López Raimundo compiled lists of Mauthausen victims and their Nazi captors.
—Sara J. Brenneis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
Eventually, these economic troubles cause problems for state captors.
—Elizabeth David-Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2025
But some two dozen Israeli hostages who were reportedly still alive in the tunnels of Gaza are in immediate danger from their captors and from Israeli fire.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025
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Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
Along with his countrymen Joan de Diego, Casimir Climent and others, Spanish survivor Joaquín López Raimundo compiled lists of Mauthausen victims and their Nazi captors.
—Sara J. Brenneis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
Eventually, these economic troubles cause problems for state captors.
—Elizabeth David-Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2025
But some two dozen Israeli hostages who were reportedly still alive in the tunnels of Gaza are in immediate danger from their captors and from Israeli fire.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Captor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captor. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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captor
noun
cap·tor
ˈkap-tər 
-ˌtȯ(ə)r
: one that has captured a person or thing
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