as in to imprison
to put in or as if in prison
the state incarcerated over 1900 people last year
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Recent Examples of incarcerate
The 55-year-old Combs is expected to remain at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Correctional Center until sentencing, where he’s been incarcerated since his September 2024 arrest.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
Is Diddy getting released? Combs has been incarcerated at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrested on Sept. 16, 2024.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 2 July 2025
But Alexander denied Echols' request in June 2022, saying Arkansas Act 1780 of 2001 only allows incarcerated people the opportunity to seek new evidence testing.
—Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
Max Ludwig Nansen, a Fictional Painter Turned Martyr Set in Germany in the 1950s, the novel is told through the eyes of Siggi, a young man incarcerated in a prison for delinquent youths.
—Ombline Damy, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2025
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
Is Diddy getting released? Combs has been incarcerated at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrested on Sept. 16, 2024.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 2 July 2025
But Alexander denied Echols' request in June 2022, saying Arkansas Act 1780 of 2001 only allows incarcerated people the opportunity to seek new evidence testing.
—Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
Max Ludwig Nansen, a Fictional Painter Turned Martyr Set in Germany in the 1950s, the novel is told through the eyes of Siggi, a young man incarcerated in a prison for delinquent youths.
—Ombline Damy, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2025
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Those imprisoned under that code were forced to wear a pink triangle to denote homosexuality.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2025
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The crackdown left hundreds killed, thousands imprisoned and several executed.—
Sahar Zand,
ABC News,
28 June 2025
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According to Collin County records, he was jailed and released.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 July 2025
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Maxwell was jailed for 20 years in June 2022 following a one month trial concluding in December 2021.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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“Incarcerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarcerate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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