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Recent Examples of gulag
Although Russia is a militant autocracy, the reason for Putin’s lifetime presidency isn’t gulags, mass executions, or forced labor.
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Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025
Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025
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Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025
Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
Noun
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He was beaten by security forces, arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
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During his 12-year pontificate, Francis famously celebrated the Holy Thursday ritual by traveling to Rome-area prisons and refugee centers to wash the feet of people most on society’s margins.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But Wood’s penitentiary is considerably sturdier.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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The former president was hospitalized on March 13 after feeling ill at the Papuda penitentiary in the Brazilian capital.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This center could break that cycle by getting them the specialized treatment that the jail cannot and does not provide.—
Jim DeFede,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Ramsey, 53, has been held in a Dallas County, Iowa, jail since March 17, with bail set at $2 million.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Feb. 2026
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To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.—
ROBERT D. McFADDEN,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2017
Noun
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Rosanna Arquette is pushing back against comments that Harvey Weinstein made in a recent jailhouse interview with The Hollywood Reporter.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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The defendant’s allegations against the team came to light last summer, when recordings from his jailhouse phone calls were played in court.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
22 Mar. 2026
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The camp consisted of a stockade erected around a 16-acre field by 200 enslaved workers commandeered from nearby plantations.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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But some of the women who served time in Bryan remain skeptical that the prison camp has been transformed.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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Bale was 12 when Steven Spielberg cast him in the incredibly challenging role of Jim, the son of a wealthy British family who gets separated during World War II and ends up in a Japanese prison camp.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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Take the brake-by-wire system, which blends the disc brakes’ stopping power with the 849’s regenerative braking to reduce jerk, prevent lockup, and maximize performance.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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