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Recent Examples of gulag
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
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Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
Noun
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The three men face a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison when they’re sentenced June 6 on federal murder and robbery charges.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Crumbley’s husband, James, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison last year.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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In 2015, Ulbricht was handed a life sentence for his involvement in the enterprise and is currently incarcerated at a high-security penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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He was freed on parole from the Terre Haute, Indiana, federal penitentiary on Nov. 30, 1948, after serving 32 months of his five-year prison sentence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Owens receives credit for time served in jail since 2022, when he was arrested.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Since his arrest, Abreu has been held at the Broward Sheriff’s Office jail.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Some of his friends also collected drawings of clowns on jailhouse envelopes sent by their dads.—
Frank Rojas,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Power of Sheriffs in Mississippi For years the state ignored or was unaware of allegations of jailhouse rape, brutal beatings and corrupt acts by sheriffs and their deputies.—
Nate Rosenfield,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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This would move more people out of expensive prison camps and into prerelease custody, a much lower cost option.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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As noted by the IRS, under the user agreement, the rewards were periodically deposited to the taxpayer’s account (following any applicable lockup or waiting period).—
Timothy M. Todd,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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Shares in Truth Social have hovered around $14 in the week following the expiration of the company's lockup provision, which prevented Trump and other early investors from selling any of their shares for the six months following the company's public offering.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
27 Sep. 2024
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