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Kidnapped

American  
[kid-napt] / ˈkɪd næpt /

noun

  1. a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.


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Kidnapped by bumbling conspiracy theorists Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, Michelle stares at her jailer calmly as she pitches them on letting her go.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

Also, Game Mechanic Studios will have its HDR10+ gaming title Happy Trails and the Kidnapped Princess on the floor.

From The Verge Dec. 23, 2021

Kidnapped Africans ended up all around the world.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2020

Or to leap back another year, consider this headline from May 2014: “U.S. Deploys 80 Troops to Chad to Help Find Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls.”

From Salon Mar. 12, 2016

It was while reading Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson that they first got the idea to run away together.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

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