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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
Eight months after Morgan Wallen threw a chair off the sixth-floor balcony of a Nashville bar, the country music crooner was sentenced to seven days incarceration at a DUI education center, followed by two years probation.
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
Similarly, Open Society Foundations funds efforts in the U.S. to reduce incarceration rates, boost equity initiatives and establish lenient drug use laws.
—Patrick Hauf, Baltimore Sun, 11 Dec. 2024
Thousands of prisoners have now been freed, many after decades of incarceration in brutal conditions.
—Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
On another wall were carved prisoners’ names, birthplaces and dates of incarceration.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
Similarly, Open Society Foundations funds efforts in the U.S. to reduce incarceration rates, boost equity initiatives and establish lenient drug use laws.
—Patrick Hauf, Baltimore Sun, 11 Dec. 2024
Thousands of prisoners have now been freed, many after decades of incarceration in brutal conditions.
—Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
On another wall were carved prisoners’ names, birthplaces and dates of incarceration.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarceration
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The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday issued a sweeping demand that Israel and Hamas reach a cease-fire agreement and that all hostages be freed from captivity.Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024
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Pete Travis Timmerman, 29, from Urbana, Mo., emerged after months of captivity in an online video, which some mistakenly believed showed Austin Tice, a journalist who went missing in the country over a decade ago.Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
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At the same time, the United States and Western allies have accused Xi of overseeing widespread human rights abuses, even claims of genocide, against the nation's Uyghurs through the use of mass internment camps, a charge the Chinese leader and his government have vehemently denied.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Their strategy resulted in Trump downplaying China’s crackdown against protesters in Hong Kong, expressing support for its internment camps in Xinjiang, offering to lift export controls on Huawei and ZTE, and even accepting a trade deal that did not address China’s industrial policy practices.Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2024
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The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, said French officials routinely placed children on Mayotte in immigration detention with their families, despite condemnation of the practice by the European Court of Human Rights.Julie Bourdin, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Youth detention facilities across the U.S. under scrutiny The charges in Alabama are the latest in a wave of cases and lawsuits involving youth detention facilities across the country.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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They were all convicted on Thursday and given sentences ranging from 3 to 15 years in prison.Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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His sister is still seeking answers after the investigation found insufficient evidence to put the person responsible in prison.Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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This means Jaynes is either in a residential reentry center or in home confinement.Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
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According to the Miami Herald, Shapiro had been released from prison in 2020 as part of a COVID-era program to move inmates to home confinement.Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Incarceration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarceration. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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