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- noun Plural form of
kidnaping .
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Examples
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So, never mind the blowin up of bakeries, and bus attacks, rocket attacks, kidnapings, etc.
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So, never mind the blowin up of bakeries, and bus attacks, rocket attacks, kidnapings, etc.
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They don't want to go down that road because it just encourages more kidnapings.
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Yemen has had a rush of kidnapings of westerners, especially in the north.
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As far as this serial killer case is concerned, we have -- the incidents began last August with sexual assaults, robbing and kidnapings.
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The tourists from Alabama are singled out for kidnapings and racist slurs.
Rich Rapists and Cannibal Killers; Distraction News Goes Into High Gear 2006
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Aneesh, there's been, at least in recent weeks, an uptick in the number of kidnapings of westerners.
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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.
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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
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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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