Hostage and Indication

Hostage

Hostage noun - A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.

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Indication and hostage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Indication" instead a noun "Hostage".

Indication noun - A slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation).

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Hostage and indication are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hostage" instead a noun "Indication".

fellow	fellow hostage	fellow indication
old	old hostage	old indication
best	best hostage	best indication
single	single hostage	single indication
Other adjectives: poor, entire, real, large, little, important, final, previous.

X6 put sixteen of these hostage Reploids in each level, and some of them give you upgrades with no in-level indication of who gives what--or indeed, anything.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Action
The clearest indication that Bob might no longer be considered a hostage is really that he and Deadpool don't appear to have seen each other in some time.

Source: Team Pet
But instead, he insists on being needlessly antagonistic and engaging in pointless plots, namely kidnapping and hiding Appa while giving the Gaang no indication that he's done this (he seems to have forgotten the point of having a hostage is that the opposing side knows you have one).

Source: Villain Ball

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