as in to jail
to put in or as if in prison
in this society, we try to imprison criminals so that they can't do any more harm
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After the shooting, Mr. Cure’s family and attorneys said that he might have been triggered by the encounter after having been wrongfully imprisoned.
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Christine Hauser, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Cassian, meanwhile, learns that Bix has been imprisoned on the planet.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Among those imprisoned are opposition leaders, human-rights activists, journalists and several minors.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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Christine Hauser, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Cassian, meanwhile, learns that Bix has been imprisoned on the planet.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Among those imprisoned are opposition leaders, human-rights activists, journalists and several minors.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Imprison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprison. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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