gulag

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Recent Examples of gulag Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags. Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025 What kind of people approve of a government that extra-judicially kidnaps innocents and renders them into the hands of a foreign gulag—and then hides behind that government when ordered by an American court to bring them back? Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025 One man who was a dissident imprisoned in a Soviet gulag—future Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky—had this to say about hearing of Reagan's description of the Soviet Union as an evil empire. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gulag
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Noun
  • According to records, Martínez faced robbery charges in the US, pleaded guilty, and was released on bail before being arrested and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
    Rocio Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Filming without consent in certain circumstances is a Class 5 felony, punishable by up to two and a half years in prison.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The wave of prison violence is happening despite the deployment of military and police forces in several penitentiaries.
    Ana María Cañizares, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, his crooked sidekick, Robertson, BOP # 21731-509, is locked up in another good-time penitentiary in Beckley, WV.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Anyone who violated the law could have been charged with a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct, which is punishable by up to six months in county jail and a $1,000 fine.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 10 Nov. 2025
  • He is scheduled to appear in court on November 26, according to jail records.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.
    ROBERT D. McFADDEN, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • 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
Noun
  • Guiteau attempted to flee the scene, but was stopped by a ticket agent and a police officer and was later taken to a jailhouse.
    Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Prosecutors filed his jailhouse financial history under seal.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's daughter, is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is serving time at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Prior to his move, Combs was being held in a Brooklyn federal lockup since his September 2024 arrest, first awaiting his trial and subsequent sentencing.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
  • After lockup that night, officers moved Dewer and Lamorie from their cells to solitary confinement.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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