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enchainment

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as in enslavement

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Some were written by people who experienced enslavement, others were dictated, and some were preserved through oral traditions.

— Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
While Homer followed warriors sailing home from Troy, the playwright Euripides — writing some three centuries later — turned to the city’s ruins and its women, forced into exile and enslavement.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

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The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the restrictions would most likely lose in court, at least for this year's election.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Chinese authorities imposed new restrictions on foreign travel in order to stop cutting-edge technology and top-flight researchers from leaving, taking a step closer to a regime that had characterized a more closed-off China of decades past.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of restriction

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Nitta said the Emergence experiment is the first to shed light on how AI agents collude to bypass guardrails and break confinement, as OpenAI has yet to release all of its findings from the Hugging Face incident.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
There may also be special provisions allowing greater access to your money for circumstances such as nursing home confinement or a terminal illness.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of confinement

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Habeas corpus, which allows a defendant to challenge the legality of their imprisonment, is among several mechanisms for release, some of which depend on a detainee’s location.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
His subjects are voluntary members of the American elite who were at no risk of imprisonment or impoverishment.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of imprisonment

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This local chain is one of the most reliably affordable meals in the LA area that also happens to be consistently delicious.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
As a ubiquitous fixture across the country, the chain provides a familiar, predictable environment that makes millions of members feel instantly at home.

— Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of chain

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That, and the at-arm’s-length care of the staff (who are sometimes comedically cold), makes existence within the ward feel like a close cousin to incarceration.

— Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
For generations, the women sustain a world of warmth and care amid what Fleetwood calls a family curse, as the men’s lives are beset by mass incarceration and rampant gun violence.

— Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of incarceration

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Israel robs children of their smallest joys because joy is the seed of hope, and that is how the body learns that captivity is not the natural condition of life.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
The last thylacine living in captivity died from exposure in 1936 at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania — shortly after the Tasmanian government belatedly granted the species protected status.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of captivity

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More gets lost when implementation hits an unanticipated constraint.

— Lorenzo Alvaro, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
They are being asked to increase speed and productivity while managing labor constraints, rising customer expectations, greater order complexity, and constant pressure to control costs.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

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