Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remands
Noun
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One was that the workers be transported from a detention facility to the Atlanta airport without handcuffs or other physical restraints.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025 -
An inspector found a fly strip over a prep table and employees not wearing hair restraints while preparing food, county documents show.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Pinault family owns 42 percent of shares in Kering and detains 59 percent of voting rights.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
9 Sep. 2025
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The play is set in the real-life town of Lumpkin, whose economy has become reliant on a private prison that detains immigrants.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Crime has been down across the District, though many residents have expressed their displeasure and raised concerns that immigration arrests have been a central part of the crackdown.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The incarcerations have been part of Bukele’s controversial efforts to stem the high crime rates and gang violence that have plagued the country for years.—
Michael Rios,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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The Body Politic uplifts Baltimore’s relative success in decreasing the city’s homicide and violent crime rate while not increasing incarcerations or the rate of citizen-police interactions.—
Richard Fowler,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Many fear the detentions of hundreds of workers from the country could have a chilling effect on any business thinking of striking a deal on US soil.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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As late as 2019, with detentions in Xinjiang well underway, Dell hosted an industry summit in its capital.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Suppose the number is read in one case out of a hundred, and that the information reaches someone who apprehends the culprit in one case out of one thousand.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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An 1878 law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally restrains the use of the military for such purposes.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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In the footage, a Border Patrol agent is shown holding one man with his forearm across a man’s neck – and later, an FHP officer restrains the man who is tased, grabbing him around the neck area while the man is doubled down.—
Syra Ortiz-Blanes,
Miami Herald,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The operation is expected to last weeks, like May's Operation Patriot in Boston which resulted in over 1,500 criminal alien apprehensions.—
Griff Jenkins , Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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By comparison, during many months in Biden’s term, apprehensions surpassed more than 6,000 per day — and sometimes topping 10,000.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Remands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remands. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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