ex-con

noun

informal
: a former prisoner

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Hamilton also starred as matriarch Vivian Potter on the 1989 daytime drama Generations, ex-con Cissie Johnson on the 1991 nighttime soap Dangerous Women, and Georgia Anderson in Roots: The Next Generation. Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 June 2025 Contestants include an ex-con, a pastor, a lawyer, a poker player and Naperville’s own, North. Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025 The cemetery was closed in the 1990s, after families complained that the owner, ex-con Jules Roth, neglected the graves and grounds. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025 An ex-con out on parole for shoving a transgender woman onto Manhattan subway tracks a decade ago has now been arrested for assaulting a straphanger with a metal rod, police said Monday. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ex-con

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“Ex-con.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ex-con. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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