Sentence examples for abductor from inspiring English sources

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The word "abductor" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to a muscle that moves a limb away from the midline of the body or to describe someone who takes a person away unlawfully.
Example: "The police are searching for the abductor who kidnapped the child."
Alternatives: "Kidnapper" or "Taker."

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abductor

noun

One who abducts; a kidnapper.

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Prosecutors say her alleged abductor, Phillip Garrido, is the father.

Martial, a Latin poet and lewd gag-writer, likened his words to slaves, and an author who had stolen them to a plagiarius, or abductor.

In mammals the supracoracoideus retains its attachment to the humerus, but its previous point of origin (the coracoid plate) disappears, and the muscle now appears as two separate blocks of muscle arising on either side of the spine of the scapula as an abductor muscle (supraspinatus) and a rotator and flexor (infraspinatus).

Intrinsic factors may be anatomical issues (such as preexisting ITB tightness) or biomechanics (such as weakness of the knee extensor and hip abductor muscles).

The radial nerve innervates the triceps, anconeus, and brachioradialis muscles, eight extensors of the wrist and digits, and one abductor of the hand; it is also sensory to part of the hand.

Adductor muscle, any of the muscles that draw a part of the body toward its median line or toward the axis of an extremity (compare abductor muscle), particularly three powerful muscles of the human thigh adductor longus, adductor brevis, and adductor magnus.

Earlier, King's abductor muscle was only thought to be a one-game injury – but with King, there are no one-game injuries.

Former journalist Barton has been in enough newsrooms to know how papers chase a big story and Kate's pursuit of an exclusive with the widow of a suspected child abductor is convincing.

For the next eight years she was imprisoned in a specially built underground cell beneath the suburban home of her abductor.

It later emerged that Alex's abductor, a 33-year-old nurse called Janet Griffiths (no relation), wanted to use the baby to convince her millionaire lover to leave his wife.

She is reborn and given male form, returning to kill her celibate abductor.

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