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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spirited (away or off)
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All of it led Clemente to theorize that Guthrie was kidnapped by just one person.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
25 Apr. 2026 -
Investigators subsequently learned she had been kidnapped at knifepoint and taken from her bedroom by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Set in a Barcelona shaped by housing crisis, the film follows a delivery worker on the verge of eviction who must find her missing flatmate-landlord after she is abducted by a criminal group tied to the city’s property market.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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In 2024, most children featured in alerts nationwide were abducted by family members (61%), with a father (32%) or mother (26%) being the most common culprit.—
Andrea Lucia,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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His late father, Miguel Oceguera, emigrated from Mexico and rented a cot from a family friend in the basement downstairs in 1973.—
Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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For regular Americans, the stagflation debate is not abstract, showing up in every job search and in every monthly cost from utility bills to rent payments.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
28 Apr. 2026
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At least one person was entrapped in the wreckage, according to the Forney Police Department.—
Steven Rosenbaum,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Stevenson insists that the goal of the Legacy Museum is not to present Alabama as irredeemably racist or forever entrapped by its past.—
Clint Smith,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Spirited (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirited%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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