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  • Once in a while I found myself hoping that I would be abducted by white slavers, even though I didn't believe in them.  (source)
    abducted = involuntarily taken
  • ...a possible reference to Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.  (source)
    Abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
  • Okay, I was abducted by Eskimos in the Yukon Terr—no, that's crap.  (source)
    abducted = taken involuntarily
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  • As I studied Pearce's face before I woke him, I wondered about his mixed and untraceable bloodlines, wondered what abducted tribes had combined to produce such furious handsomeness.  (source)
    abducted = kidnapped
  • ...and I wondered (a deeper, darker thought) if some curse had not befallen my husband, some curse that is said to afflict some men, and that if, in his twisted, self-centered way, he had attributed that curse to Sukeena, and that this explained her abduction by the police and therefore, quite possibly, my missing daughter.  (source)
    abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • We finally know the name of the girl who we watched the Capitol abduct from the woods of 12, the fate of the Peacekeeper friend who tried to keep Gale alive.†  (source)
  • We've also learned that they've used illegal methods to uncover the identities of gunters they consider a threat, with the intention of abducting and murdering them.†  (source)
    abducting = taking someone away against their will
  • "Abductions on the kingsroad and drunken slaughter in my streets," the king said.†  (source)
    Abductions = acts of taking people away against their will
  • I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes and abducts children from houses!†  (source)
    abducts = takes someone away against their will
  • A concerned waitress in Denver had seen the man threatening his abductees outside her diner, gotten a friend to take a photo, and notified the police.†  (source)
    abductees = people take away against their will
  • A relative was abducted by the military, tortured, and released many months later.†  (source)
    abducted = took someone away against their will
  • Menelaus, his brother, whose wife Helen's abduction had begun the war.†  (source)
    abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
  • And with us needing the humans and having to abduct them just to stay alive...that won't just go away.†  (source)
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