as in captivity
the act of confining or the state of being confined
after his impoundment in the garage all weekend, the family dog was ready to frolic
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Recent Examples of impoundment
If an owner does not retrieve their vehicle 45 days after the mandatory period of impoundment expires, it will be considered abandoned and its ownership will be granted to Louisville Metro Government.
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024
Fred Zink’s Mobile Boat Blind Private-land hunters often build permanent blinds on their impoundment, which can be a disadvantage, especially on larger wetlands.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
Some were built for recreation, providing large and small water bodies — referred to as impoundments — calmer and safer than the river itself.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
The city has two upstream impoundments, both built during the 1930s as public works projects.
—Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2024
Fred Zink’s Mobile Boat Blind Private-land hunters often build permanent blinds on their impoundment, which can be a disadvantage, especially on larger wetlands.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
Some were built for recreation, providing large and small water bodies — referred to as impoundments — calmer and safer than the river itself.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
The city has two upstream impoundments, both built during the 1930s as public works projects.
—Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoundment
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Jia Jia, who died at 38 in 2016, is the world’s oldest-ever panda to have lived in captivity.Ryan Hogg, Fortune Asia, 3 Dec. 2024
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Some of the girls escaped captivity on their own while others were released after persistent campaigning from activist organizations such as Amnesty International.Lipi Roy, MD, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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The challenge will be to find workers to take the jobs left behind by undocumented immigrants incarcerated in internment camps awaiting return to their home countries, or more likely, in limbo unable to return home nor to return to work given the policy implemented to try to remove them.Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Chinese officials there have been accused of detaining as many as 1 million people in internment camps, which Beijing insists were reeducation camps.Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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Thousands of prisoners have now been freed, many after decades of incarceration in brutal conditions.Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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On another wall were carved prisoners’ names, birthplaces and dates of incarceration.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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That group should start with the nearly 1,500 prisoners who are currently on home confinement under the CARES Act.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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He is being held in pretrial confinement and is awaiting a preliminary hearing.CBS News, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Impoundment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoundment. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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