stalag

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Recent Examples of stalag 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 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 To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays. Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalag
Noun
  • Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025
  • What kind of people approve of a government that extra-judicially kidnaps innocents and renders them into the hands of a foreign gulag—and then hides behind that government when ordered by an American court to bring them back?
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But Hoover will remain in prison, serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder.
    Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • After a guilty plea, Brown faces up to 20 years in prison.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
  • Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • In that case, a man incarcerated in a local jail filed a complaint with CLERB alleging that deputies damaged his personal property and mishandled legal documents during a cell search.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • In a previous life, the tournament would have been the high point of his professional career, but languishing in a Qatari jail, Ibhais could not bear witnessing the four-week football extravaganza playing out in the Gulf nation.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.
    Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.
    Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
Noun
  • Williams refuted the criticism from Gov. Landry who said the DA refused too many jailhouse charges against the recent inmate escapees and allowed cases to stall in Criminal District Court.
    Faith Abubey, ABC News, 21 May 2025
  • Diddy was allowed to shed his jailhouse attire for the trial and chose a blue sweater over a white button-down shirt for the first day of jury selection.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • That comes from my grandfather, who survived a concentration camp.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Andrew Stern was born in 1944 in a basement in the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; his father survived multiple concentration camps.
    Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025

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“Stalag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalag. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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