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Recent Examples of gulag
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
But no serious groundswell of opposition was recorded, even as his main opponent was killed off in a gulag.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
But no serious groundswell of opposition was recorded, even as his main opponent was killed off in a gulag.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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He was sentenced to a term of five months to 20 years in prison and ordered to be removed to Laos in 2007.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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After pleading guilty, Lewis was sentenced to 2½ years in prison in addition to a no-contact order that bans him from Fever games and facilities.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Aug. 2025
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At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.—
Heather Knight,
New York Times,
6 May 2025
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In the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian glide bomb attack on a local penitentiary killed 17 inmates and wounded more than 80 others in one of the deadliest strikes in the region to date.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The Associated Press in 2021 investigated how the technology landed a Chicago grandfather in jail after it was used as evidence to charge him with murder, with a judge later dismissing the case due to insufficient evidence.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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The case ultimately went to trial, where the actor was found guilty and sentenced to 150 days in jail.—
Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
7 Aug. 2025
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Federal civil rights officials have closed the book on their years-long probe into the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s former practice of illegally using jailhouse informants to gather incriminating evidence from inmates.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
29 July 2025
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The two returned to court in front of Judge Dawn Nichols at the Volusia County Courthouse at 10 a.m. with Hunter in the courtroom and Victorino present from a jailhouse feed.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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After that interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence at an all-female federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was recently moved from a minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
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Some private equity or real estate vehicles require multiyear lockups.—
Gregory Clifford,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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If needed, the Jim Hogg County lockup will be made available to federal border authorities, the statement from Abbott's office said.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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