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Recent Examples of detainee
His executive action would bypass a 10-year-old city law that removed ICE from Rikers, which mostly holds pretrial detainees.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Mohammad helped guard detainees at a U.S. air base.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Wrongful detainees returning to the US are given the option to take part in PISA, which stands for Post Isolation Support Activities.
—Jennifer Hansler, Anna Chernova and Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Israel released more than 180 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in return, in the fifth such exchange, including some that are serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis.
—Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Mohammad helped guard detainees at a U.S. air base.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Wrongful detainees returning to the US are given the option to take part in PISA, which stands for Post Isolation Support Activities.
—Jennifer Hansler, Anna Chernova and Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Israel released more than 180 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in return, in the fifth such exchange, including some that are serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis.
—Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for detainee
Noun
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Bonds in the hundreds of millions of dollars are sometimes seen with high profile or wealthy defendants.—
Gina Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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However, two other defendants, Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former hotel employee, and Braian Paiz, a waiter who served Payne at a restaurant, remain in custody.—
Billboard Staff,
Billboard,
21 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s new Administration is poised to alter existing guidelines so that even more arrestees can enter deportation proceedings.—
Jessica Pishko,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
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Fewer than one in three arrestees were charged with any offense, and most of those were for minor infractions like jaywalking, littering, and blocking sidewalks.—
V.N. Trinh / Made by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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If convicted of second-degree murder, the seven suspects could face life in prison.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Like, Santos suspects Langdon is doing something fishy with medications, which Dr. Carter was accused of, too.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Regularly eating fish, like salmon, has been shown to be effective for building muscle mass and gaining strength.—
Jillian Kubala, RD,
Health,
25 Feb. 2025
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The current design incorporates a series of rocks to effectively block fish from passing through.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Williamson spends the entire movie moving from one L.A. locale and subculture to another, meeting a motley crew of criminals rich, scrappy, and everything in between, along the way.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
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Might be important later: the criminal was able to gain entrance to the White Lotus property when Valentin pulls up on his motorcycle to the security gate to chat with Gaitok, at the exact moment a random SUV containing the thief sails through.—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Detainee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detainee. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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