arrestments

noun

plural of arrestment
1
as in arrests
the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law the arrestment of the bank president for embezzlement was accomplished as quietly as possible

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2
as in cessations
the stopping of a process or activity the arrestment of all brain activity in the patient

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrestments
  1. arrests
  2. cessations
  3. raids
  4. endings
  5. halts
  6. conclusions
  7. ends
  8. closures
Noun
  • The president’s immigration crackdown has been a prominent feature of his second term with major operations in Los Angeles and other cities sending arrests soaring.
    — Mike Catalini, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2026
  • In May 2025, Miller publicly demanded a dramatic increase in daily arrests, placing pressure on ICE leadership and expanding enforcement beyond immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of arrests
Noun
  • Temporary cessations of hostility, but no permanent closing of the moral and social divide between debtor and creditor, and no giving up on the thought that some lives matter more than others.
    — Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of cessations
Noun
  • After the raids ramped up in January, tens of thousands of former workers ended up in the capital, Phnom Penh, many sleeping in the streets.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • American bombers aiming for Nantes’ port hit the city center instead, killing about 1,400 people and destroying more than 700 buildings in two raids.
    — Shahnaz Bashir, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of raids
Noun
  • The main reason the Giants have a chance to win every week, though, despite all their injuries and heart-stopping endings, is that Jameis Winston is playing well as their starting quarterback.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Dramatic — and sometimes controversial — endings were the story of a wild college football Saturday, with late-game calls deciding some outcomes and potentially having an effect on how the College Football Playoff shapes up a couple months from now.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • Seko nonetheless expects temporary gate suspensions and pilotage halts for Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen and Fuzhou from Friday night through Monday, with intermittent pilotage suspensions at Yangshan across the same window.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • That was March 2020, when the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler tried to coordinate production halts over Covid-19 fears, only to be warned by their lawyers that doing so could violate antitrust rules.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of halts
Noun
  • That requires testing whether signals have predictive value, examining them together and avoiding automatic conclusions about individual behaviors.
    — Artem Lalaiants, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Laster also suggested that the company’s financial advisors had data disputing our conclusions.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of conclusions
Noun
  • All spiders lack telomere repeats which are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The Illinois comptroller is the only statewide office without an incumbent running, and two candidates from opposite ends of the state are vying to fill the spot.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of ends
Noun
  • The Utah Navajo Health System posted about highway closures and detours.
    — Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The Utah Navajo Health System posted several active highway closures, with detours.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
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