gulags

noun

plural of gulag
as in jails

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  1. jails
  2. prisons
  3. penitentiaries
  4. concentration camps
  5. lockups
  6. tanks
  7. cages
  8. pens
Noun
  • Some in county jails are there for just a few days, but others can stay behind bars for months or even years before their cases are tried in court.
    — Amber Gaudet July 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
  • This came after the Obama administration broadened a program that linked people booked in local jails with federal immigration officials.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Definition of jails
Noun
  • Birch said he was moved around between prisons as the years passed.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • That would do more than all the police and prisons put together to reduce the future crime rate.
    — Ronald J. Allen, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Definition of prisons
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • That event will trigger the first wave of stock-sale lockups expiring.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 16 July 2026
  • While index inclusion will put upward pressure on the stock, expiring lockups over the coming weeks and months will likely add downward pressure as insiders unload shares.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of lockups
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • For larger dahlia varieties, opt for the heaviest-duty cages available.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026
  • Researchers could still detect it in mole-rat cages roughly 24 hours after it’d been applied.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Definition of cages
Noun
  • If you’re used to pencils or pens, the flexibility can initially feel unfamiliar.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 24 July 2026
  • Davidson is accused of attempting to steal 10 THC vape pens from Liles and threatening the use of a firearm, according to court records.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of pens
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