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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
Noun
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Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 and later sentenced to 14 years in prison.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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Mayers has pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and is facing years in prison if convicted.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
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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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In 2015, Ulbricht was handed a life sentence for his involvement in the enterprise and is currently incarcerated at a high-security penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The plea was made in a deal with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office that included no jail time or restitution but a three-year conditional discharge.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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There is no criminal complaint, so nobody is at risk of jail time.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 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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Contrary to her grandfather Elvis’ lyrics, Riley Keough learned the hard way that landing in the jailhouse does not, in fact, rock.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Some of his friends also collected drawings of clowns on jailhouse envelopes sent by their dads.—
Frank Rojas,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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The Brooklyn jail is the city’s only federal lockup and previously held high-profile inmates like Sam Bankman-Fried, Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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Per the outlet, at least 645 defendants were sentenced to periods ranging from a few days to 22 years in federal lockup, with 250 people currently in custody.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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