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Recent Examples of gulag
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
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Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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Three days later, his immigration attorney was able to reach an ICE official who confirmed that his client was in a prison in another country.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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One of the five men convicted in the 2022 drugging and robbery of patrons at gay bars in Manhattan was slapped with eight years in prison on Thursday.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The complaints at Lee mirror accounts from what was then a federal penitentiary, USP Thomson in Illinois, especially the overuse of four-point restraints.—
Christie Thompson,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2024
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Lamberth also noted that there are only about 16 transgender women housed in female penitentiaries, including the three plaintiffs who sued.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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As Ortega is held at a Rikers Island jail pending his next court appearance, police are still working to track down his machete-wielding partner in crime and are asking for the public’s help in identifying him.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Willie Frank Peterson, 52, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2023, and was sentenced to six years and three months in jail.—
Andrea Margolis,
Fox News,
20 Mar. 2025
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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For those who are intrigued but not yet sold on the idea of a jailhouse glow-up, consider this: centuries ago, prisoners in this very spot would have given anything for a bit of self-care.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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According to jailhouse surveillance footage obtained by ABC News, the man who fought with Davis appeared to have been waiting alone and unattended in a common area when Davis came walking through with an escort.—
Josh Margolin,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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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,
3 Sep. 2024
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Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.—
Erin Couch,
The Enquirer,
15 July 2024
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Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2025
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The North Korean government has long denied the existence of political prison camps.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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In response, prison agency officials emailed staff at other facilities in search of volunteers from across the country willing to work at the rural New England lockup.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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However, she was forced to report to a minimum-security lockup in Texas nearly 17 months later, even while her appeal was heard.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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