enchainment

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Noun
  • One character, a troubled traveling man named Herald Loomis (Joshua Boone), bears the scars of post-slavery enslavement after being abducted into seven years of hard labor under Joe Turner.
    Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 6 May 2026
  • Their joyous innocence depicts the newest generation of Black Americans who won’t contend with enslavement but will be forced to confront the terrors of Jim Crow.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Business travelers will find this especially frustrating, as even VPNs usually can’t break through these restrictions in the capital.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026
  • According to a survey conducted last year by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), 34 percent of museums have been hit with the cancellation of government grants or contracts and 13 percent have been subjected to new legal restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion activities.
    News Desk, Artforum, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • His attorneys didn’t object to his new confinement status.
    Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2026
  • He was acquitted of two counts of criminal confinement.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • The fallout for Murdock, as seen in the episode, is his arrest and imprisonment.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Her current imprisonment began in December, when she was arrested in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Walter Fredenhagen was the founder of the Cock Robin ice cream parlor chain.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Precariously balanced on the very tip of Coney Island, Sea Gate, where I was raised, is surrounded by water on three sides and divided from the rest of the world by a two-story chain link fence.
    Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The Alternative Programs offers no-cash-bail alternatives to incarceration for youth and adult non-violent offenders in South Florida.
    Najahe Sherman, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Such families are common in Appalachia, where poverty and incarceration rates are high, and the effects of the opioid crisis linger across successive generations.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Ukraine is consistently working to bring its people home from Russian captivity.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 May 2026
  • After being rescued from a Taiwanese fish market several years ago, Yushan is the only whale shark in captivity in the Western Hemisphere, according to aquarium officials.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Operational constraints around the stadium—safety rules, logistics workarounds, matchday procedures—lived almost entirely in the heads of a few senior staff.
    Shivaas Gulati, Sportico.com, 12 May 2026
  • Although quite a few movies have taken place against the whirl of the Cannes Film Festival, only a handful have been shot within sanctioned festival spaces — often because of artistic, logistical and financial constraints.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
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“Enchainment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchainment. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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