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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.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—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
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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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—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
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
Noun
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Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Prisoners look out of their cell at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman, whose social media presence attracted millions of followers before his Saturday arrest on a domestic battery count, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $350 bond, court records showed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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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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Young Thug has been at the center of controversy over the past several days, as recordings of jailhouse calls made while he was incarcerated during the YSL trial have leaked online.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 2025
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Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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Investors holding just over half of Figma's outstanding Class A stock have agreed to an extended lockup, with the final 35% of their shares expiring in August 2026.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Chrisley family's grand return to TV after Todd and Julie's pardon releases from prison is marred by family strife that grew during the years of lockup.—
Ryan Coleman September 2,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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