Captured and Picked up

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Captured adjective - Taken and held prisoner.

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Picked up and captured are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Picked up" instead an adjective "Captured".

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Picked up adjective - Being clean and in good order.

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Captured and picked up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captured" instead an adjective phrase "Picked up".

He's being chewed out by his superior, insisting that the hostages Phoenix captured must not be in the rubble because the thermal scan he did only picked up Phoenix and some of his crew.

Source: Film / Demolition Man
Played straight in the Alternate Ending available on the DVD: Had the show been picked up for another season, Robert would have been captured while buying time for Jake to get away, and ends up held by ASA forces in Loomer Ridge Prison in Colorado.

Source: Series / Jericho
Considering that the plot is that you and your rich friends who have likely never picked up a gun in your lives are captured by pirates and intended to be sold into slavery, you can't really expect things to be bushels of daisies at any point.

Source: Break The Cutie / Video Games

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