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gulags

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plural of gulag

as in jails

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Noun

They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.

— CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Unlike prisons, jails are designed for short-term detention rather than prolonged confinement.

— Jillian Turanovic, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of jails

Noun

Continue reading … CITY LIMITS – Mamdani clashes with Democratic Socialists' push to abolish police and prisons.

— , FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
This is probably part of why, in 2024, the New York State Department of Corrections placed prisons on lockdown and let the guards watch the eclipse, but would not let tens of thousands of the imprisoned see it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of prisons

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Hodge says he was abused in multiple federal penitentiaries, but was frequently blocked from filing complaints about it.

— Christie Thompson, NPR, 13 July 2026
This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026

Definition of penitentiaries

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Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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The mechanics of that phase, lockups, secondary markets, continuation funds, and the pressure venture firms are under to finally return capital to their own investors, are becoming just as important to understand as the IPOs themselves.

— Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
On Thursday, nearly a billion shares of SpaceX, held by early employees and pre-IPO investors, will finally break free from their lockups.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of lockups

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In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

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At center stand two cages modeled after nineteenth-century shipping containers that carried Pacific breadfruit to Europe for study and consumption.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Many sloths intended for display at the International Drive attraction languished and died by early this year in small cages inside an unheated warehouse.

— Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of cages

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Classes will cover fine art materials with specific brands of watercolors, pens, and paints, as well as special techniques.

— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026
That is why companies are moving to special pens to make injecting prescription GLP-1s and insulin less complex for untrained people.

— C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

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