enchainment

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Noun
  • By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.
    Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Later that month, a judge lifted the restriction and ordered that Hildebrandt must put $100,000 from the potential sale in a bank account for the children, according to ABC7.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Local blackout restrictions for Marlins would be eliminated in that scenario.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • He was transferred to home confinement in Philadelphia, the Bureau of Prisons told TMZ Thursday.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Her confinement was not the result of any criminal conduct, but of bureaucratic error compounded by institutional inertia.
    Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The charges carry a maximum penalty of 68 months’ imprisonment and $200,000 in fines.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Was Hsieh’s self-imprisonment a statement on mass incarceration or prison reform?
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The burger chain originally opened in 1982 near the corner of C Street and Elvas Avenue in East Sacramento, according to previous Bee reporting.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe the implications of binding yourself in chains?
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Trump has also repeatedly lashed out over the state’s incarceration of Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of state felonies related to her attempts to prove discredited election conspiracies shared by the president.
    Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Boardman imposed a sentence of 97 months, citing Roske’s mental health and concerns about incarceration conditions and his status as a first-time criminal offender.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • After Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband Aviv were abducted by Hamas on October 7, Liat’s father Yehuda embarks on an uncertain mission to secure his daughter’s release while resisting pressure to use her captivity to justify escalating violence in Gaza.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Sharabi told Fox News Digital about his life after captivity.
    Rachel Wolf , Ronn Blitzer, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • China’s true constraints Beijing has not refrained from action against Taiwan out of deference to international law and norms.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That work—integrating hardware, software, sensors, safety systems, and real-world constraints—remains enormously difficult, slow, and capital-intensive.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
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“Enchainment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchainment. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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