as in to jail
to put in or as if in prison
some Polish citizens were interned in Russian camps during World War II
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as in resident
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as in reader
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Recent Examples of intern
Emily Brooks, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
Acree's predecessor, Jason Barnes, was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest and three years of probation in 2022 over charges related to providing alcohol to a Trigg County Sheriff's Office intern who was in high school.
—Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Clearly the behavior that transformed an intern a few years later into a household name had been in play long before her blue dress became famous.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Nic Antaya/Getty Images What To Know Rock, a football communications coordinator for the NFL team, was hired as a public relations intern in 2024.
—Peter Aitken
jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Schilling, a Pennsylvania native, started in Perry’s office as an intern and has worked for him for a decade, which is a long time compared to the typical Capitol Hill staffer’s tenure.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
Acree's predecessor, Jason Barnes, was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest and three years of probation in 2022 over charges related to providing alcohol to a Trigg County Sheriff's Office intern who was in high school.
—Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
Clearly the behavior that transformed an intern a few years later into a household name had been in play long before her blue dress became famous.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Nic Antaya/Getty Images What To Know Rock, a football communications coordinator for the NFL team, was hired as a public relations intern in 2024.
—Peter Aitken
jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intern
Verb
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Prosecutors sent the Bukele government an extradition request for Melgar, who was jailed in El Salvador at the time, according to Salvadoran court records.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Dubov was part of Convers Sports Initiatives, alongside Vladimir Antonov, a Russian businessman later jailed for his role in a multi-million-dollar bank fraud.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When the federal government reached an agreement with Alabama officials last October to address destructive flooding in the predominantly Black Shiloh community, residents thought their calls for help had finally been answered.—
Maia Rosenfeld,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Her love of the Big Apple is one Spike, a lifelong Brooklyn resident, also shares.—
Collette Reitz,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Information collected by a license plate reader connects a DoorDash driver's SUV to the fatal shooting of a Canadian tourist, Sheboygan County prosecutors said in court documents.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Books will be shipped directly to borrowers at no cost and will contain return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Bukele’s administration asked for the return to El Salvador of some of the MS-13 gang leaders who had been arrested in Mexico and imprisoned in the United States.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Reports suggest that in some cases, the prisoners are still alive when their organs are removed, and some of them may be imprisoned merely as a pretense to securing their organs.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This millennial nurse commutes 5,000 miles from Sweden to work at a California hospital.—
Aman Ghei,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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At 106 years old, Alice Beck Darrow, a former nurse, knows more than most about survival.—
Genevieve Shaw Brown,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Forty-five years later, Cottrell's story was told on Long Lost Family, with the team discovering that her biological son, Paul Clarke, a university lecturer, was still living in Liverpool and had been married to his partner, Owen, for 20 years.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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Saeed Askari, a PhD student at the university, along with Parama Banerjee, PhD, a senior lecturer in the department ofchemical and biological engineering, who led the research, reportedly used heat treatment to turn 3D material into ultra-thin carbon-sheets.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Medical advances, like drones delivering blood units on the battlefield, and lessons surgeons have learned treating many soldiers on the operating table.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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Oz, a former health surgeon and television personality took the helm of Medicare and Medicaid Services in April and has said the role of AI in health care will continue to expand.—
Beth Warren,
Nashville Tennessean,
29 Sep. 2025
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Carolyn Smith, the late preacher’s daughter, said her father — like Pendleton a Knoxville College graduate — was instrumental in recruiting Pendleton and other Black educators to teach in San Diego.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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Most famously, the late preacher and radio host Harold Camping predicted doomsday again and again.—
C. A. Bridges,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Intern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intern. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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