detainee

noun

Definition of detaineenext
as in defendant

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Recent Examples of detainee The report noted that standards require at least 75 square feet of floor space per detainee in dormitory housing units. — Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 On the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh was part of the 7-2 majority that in 2022 ruled against a Guantanamo Bay detainee who had been tortured by the CIA abroad and sought information about his treatment. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 New publications include a maximalist thriller set in Jamaica, another entry from horror phenom Tananarive Due, and a memoir from former ICE detainee Mahmoud Khalil. — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 4 Sep. 2026 The waits have been particularly long in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana, where federal judges have usually taken three months or more to decide whether a detainee should be released. — Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for detainee
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  1. defendant
  2. arrestee
  3. offender
  4. suspect
  5. fish
  6. criminal
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  • The defendant and others are said to have used a yacht that departed from the German port of Rostock.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors allege the defendants used Mexican identification documents belonging to other individuals to obtain IRS taxpayer identification numbers and file fraudulent returns.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of defendant
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  • In Palatine, after a police officer helped agents physically restrain an arrestee in front of an angry crowd, his department said the cop’s actions were a necessary response to deescalate a tense situation.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout this process, every arrestee is presumed innocent — and because of that, First Appearance is not about punishment, despite some misconceptions.
    — Corey B. Friedman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrestee
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  • The Oak Lawn and Alsip village boards voted to regulate the use of security foggers in businesses as a method to deter offenders.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Too often, special occasions can feel like an excuse to buy a new outfit; weddings are the worst offenders.
    — Corinne Pierre-Louis, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of offender
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  • Officers identified a suspect at the crime scene and took him into custody.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Los Angeles County prosecutors identified the suspect in court records as Charanjit Singh.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of suspect
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  • Measuring more than 10 feet by 9 feet, Amwan Agwe… (2026), for example, depicts green hills and blue waves alongside the skulls, candles, and fish that nod to Fèt Gede, Haiti’s annual festival honoring the spirits of the dead.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Salmon born in its tributaries migrate to the ocean, spend years feeding at sea, then return to spawn, linking villages like Rampart to the same waters where the pollock fleet fishes.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of fish
Noun
  • Still, a criminal may combine those details with passwords, PINs or other information stolen elsewhere.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Pillay, 85, received the news while attending a forum in Nuremberg, Germany, where the trials of Nazi war criminals helped lay the foundations of international law.
    — Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of criminal

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“Detainee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detainee. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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