Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulags
Noun
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The virus can spread very quickly in closed and crowded environments, including schools, child care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, jails and cruise ships, according to the state Public Health Department.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
9 Dec. 2025 -
Murrill has asked a federal judge to strike down the sheriff’s department policy prohibiting jails from holding immigration detainees.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC news,
7 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Beyond the prisons, religious life in Cuba is shrinking under pressure.—
Oscar Biscet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
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By the mid-2000s, PCC dominated São Paulo’s prisons.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
10 Dec. 2025
Noun
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When their leaders were jailed, the fight for control migrated directly into penitentiaries.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
10 Dec. 2025
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At 15, Leon Schagrin was deported from occupied Poland to multiple ghettos and concentration camps.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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Many of the rest of Jaray’s family members were killed in the concentration camps.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Kamlager-Dove’s bill, called the Pregnant Women in Custody Act, would require the federal government to collect data on pregnancies — how many, the treatment, the outcomes — not only in local jails, but also in federal and state lockups, including immigration detention facilities.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
7 May 2026
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Daily visits by consular personnel to immigration lockups will henceforth replace the current practice of weekly visits, Sheinbaum said.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Tom Cruise spends the movie running through New Jersey with two terrified kids while ash drifts through the streets and giant alien war machines scoop humans into dangling metal cages.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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Guards pulled them out of their cages and beat them, leaving one with a bloody eye and another with a broken wrist, and pepper-spraying them indiscriminately, according to a filing by an attorney in the First Amendment case.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Fentanyl also can come in powder and vape pens.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
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Students would have the opportunity to get a backpack with supplies like notebooks, crayons, highlighters, pens and pencils, along with other school supplies, depending on their grade level.—
Elle Meyers,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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“Gulags.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulags. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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