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The cast fragmented, with the Byers family and El trying to start over in California while Hopper languished in a tonally dissonant Soviet gulag, as though the Duffers didn’t realize that what people loved most about Stranger Things was its grounding in Hawkins.
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Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
Stalin sent millions to the gulags, where many of them died from disease.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 26 Dec. 2025
Although Russia is a militant autocracy, the reason for Putin’s lifetime presidency isn’t gulags, mass executions, or forced labor.
—Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025
Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
Stalin sent millions to the gulags, where many of them died from disease.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 26 Dec. 2025
Although Russia is a militant autocracy, the reason for Putin’s lifetime presidency isn’t gulags, mass executions, or forced labor.
—Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2025
Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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If convicted as charged, Wilburn faces up to 14 years in prison, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office told CNN.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
22 June 2026
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Pope was a lieutenant in the Special Investigative Service (SIS) unit at the prison at the time of the offenses.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Noun
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After a federal jury voted to convict him in early 2024, Hernández was sent to a notorious high-security penitentiary in West Virginia to serve his time.—
Keri Blakinger,
ProPublica,
11 June 2026
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Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary.—
Eric Schlosser,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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To get there, Sodais climbed mountains in the snow, moved from border to border with the help of smugglers, got captured a dozen times and spent time in jail.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
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Ábalos, who spent seven months in jail before his trial in April, is accused of taking kickbacks from the purchase of $60 million-worth of facemasks during the Covid pandemic.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 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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Watkins told me in our jailhouse interview in 2018 that Cherica Adams was actually the fifth person he had been hired to kill.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 June 2026
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Since the documentary was released on May 15, police have released text messages between Shirilla and her boyfriend, Russo, as well as jailhouse calls and bodycam footage from the day of the crash, according to Fox 8.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2026
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At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
22 Mar. 2026
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Blanche met with Maxwell last July and days after the meeting, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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The Justice Department moved Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas last August.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Analysts are predicting volatility for the stock as lockup periods end and people sell shares.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026
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The Cook County state’s attorney’s office approved first-degree murder charges against Jamison, according to police, and he was set to be transferred to the Cook County sheriff’s lockup at the Markham courthouse.—
Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
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