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as in captivity
the act of confining or the state of being confined
he was bored and frustrated by his incarceration in the quarantine
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as in imprisonment
the state of being held in lawful custody
sentenced to six months of incarceration for dealing in narcotics
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Recent Examples of incarceration
Lil Durk’s incarceration hasn’t stopped his music output.
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Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
Yet, over the years, former internees and their family and friends returned to the site of their incarceration—to clean the cemetery, offer sutras to the dead and reminisce.
—Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Imagine trying to make one of the most consequential decisions of your life — whether to take a deal or to fight your case and risk incarceration — without ever seeing the evidence against you.
—Chris Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Weber and his wife, Brenda, are founders of CORE Professional Services, which helps offenders transition back into the community after incarceration.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
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Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025
Yet, over the years, former internees and their family and friends returned to the site of their incarceration—to clean the cemetery, offer sutras to the dead and reminisce.
—Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Imagine trying to make one of the most consequential decisions of your life — whether to take a deal or to fight your case and risk incarceration — without ever seeing the evidence against you.
—Chris Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Weber and his wife, Brenda, are founders of CORE Professional Services, which helps offenders transition back into the community after incarceration.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarceration
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It’s been just over eight months since the Jamaican dancehall legend was freed from captivity after serving 13 years behind bars for a murder conviction that was overturned on appeal in March 2024.—
Rob Kenner,
VIBE.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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A little more than 200 red wolves live in captivity, but fewer than 20 exist in the wild — all in a rural five-county section of northeastern North Carolina.—
Zachery Eanes,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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The final internment camps didn’t close until 1948, approximately three years after the second world war ended, according to the National Archives.—
Kate Linderman,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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But the only way our leaders should approach the Alien Enemies Act in the modern day is by acknowledging the fundamental injustice of wartime internment and expulsions and by working to repeal the law, not resurrecting it to devastate the lives of other immigrants who call this country home.—
Karen Ebel,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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In a rare weekend ruling, Supreme Court justices blocked the Trump administration's plans to deport a group of Venezuelans held at a detention facility in Texas.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2025
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In Los Angeles, demonstrators protesting the Trump administration’s deportation policies rallied outside a downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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And so, Diana stayed behind, idly waiting out her period of confinement while the museum was rebuilt around her.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Top executives settled as well, including one who was sentenced to home confinement as part of a criminal plea deal.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Incarceration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarceration. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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