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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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Those restrictions formally sunset in 2022, but so far only Sony has done a major deal for cinemas, acquiring all 35 Alamo Drafthouse locations in 2024.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
And at the state level, Assemblymember Diane Papan (D-San Mateo) in February introduced AB 2595, which would allow San Mateo County to impose age restrictions for e-bike riders under 12 years old in its jurisdiction.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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After being released from prison into in-home confinement in December, Shah has officially completed her federal sentence.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
After his original arrest by the Mokena Police Department, Alsaidi was ordered released on conditions of electronic monitoring and home confinement by Will County Judge Theodore Jarz.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026

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Laws regarding incarceration of youthful offenders — age 25 or younger at the time of the crime — have evolved since the siblings were tried.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
His father, Michael Spitze, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison in May after admitting to trying to tamper with witnesses during his son’s incarceration.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026

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During his captivity, his siblings organized weekly jam sessions in his honor at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.

— Bianna Golodryga, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Rachel and her husband Jon worked tirelessly to bring Hersh and the other hostages home, but on the 328th day of his captivity, Hersh was executed in a tunnel in Gaza.

— Will Croxton, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026

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At coarser levels, CBS detects and matches SIFT features while using epipolar constraints to estimate horizontal and vertical disparities.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Huang said that if not for these constraints, revenue growth next year would be even greater.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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