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Recent Examples of gulag
Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
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Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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
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Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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On Thursday, a judge sentenced Hunter James Geidl, of Hastings, to 198 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, according to federal court documents.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Some of the strongest footage here shows her everyday life and sisterly relationships built in the prison where she was confined for 14 years after the whole unfortunate affair.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
22 Feb. 2026
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He was arrested again in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961 and spent four months in a penitentiary where fellow Freedom Riders cried out in song each night.—
Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Azcarate sentenced Magalhaes to 10 years in the penitentiary and two years suspended.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Powell is accused of first-degree murder with a firearm and is being held without bond, according to Broward County jail records.—
Sofia Saric,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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Myers, 58, was released from jail after posting $100,000 bail, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2026
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To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.—
ROBERT D. McFADDEN,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2017
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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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After the coup d’état in 1980, the building reopened as a military jailhouse for political prisoners.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The judge's ruling said incriminating statements were illegally collected during a jailhouse interview with Fohrenkam.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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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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But shortly after meeting with Blanche, she was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Holmes, 41, has two small children and is serving her term at a minimum-security prison camp northwest of Houston.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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He’s being held at a federal lockup in Brooklyn.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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For the weeks leading up to the Games, the NHL also aired an Olympics promo during games that featured a similar logo lockup.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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