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  • noun Plural form of kidnaping.

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Examples

  • So, never mind the blowin up of bakeries, and bus attacks, rocket attacks, kidnapings, etc.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 2, 2007 2007

  • So, never mind the blowin up of bakeries, and bus attacks, rocket attacks, kidnapings, etc.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 2, 2007 2007

  • They don't want to go down that road because it just encourages more kidnapings.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2006 2006

  • Yemen has had a rush of kidnapings of westerners, especially in the north.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006 2006

  • As far as this serial killer case is concerned, we have -- the incidents began last August with sexual assaults, robbing and kidnapings.

    CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2006 2006

  • The tourists from Alabama are singled out for kidnapings and racist slurs.

    Rich Rapists and Cannibal Killers; Distraction News Goes Into High Gear 2006

  • SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Aneesh, there's been, at least in recent weeks, an uptick in the number of kidnapings of westerners.

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2006 2006

  • But I think that if people are paying this attention to the kind of national focus these cases are getting, they're really missing the point, because the vast majority of kidnapings are local situations.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2002 2002

  • It was what she had to say that would have the impact: It had been reported to her by two reliable sources that the kidnapings, for lack of a better word, had possibly been committed by members of the hospital staff.

    Sweet Anger Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1985

  • The provocations from the left have included random assassinations of rookie policemen, kidnapings of innocent civilians, and indiscriminate bombings which have killed working-class children.

    Argentine Terror Cabrera, Pablo 1977

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