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gulags

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plural of gulag

as in jails

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Some jails have staff members or volunteers teach courses, as well, Beal said.

— Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register, 22 Sep. 2026
In 2023, lawmakers passed SB 519, which requires them to release records and footage for deaths in jails and prisons.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of jails

Noun

Authorities said key fugitives in the case include Dimitri Hérard, ex-head of security at Haiti's National Palace, who escaped two years ago after a powerful gang federation stormed Haiti's two biggest prisons.

— EVENS SANON, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
The goal, advocates say, was to get individuals struggling with addiction treatment while reducing overcrowding inside state prisons.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 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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In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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Companies, remembering the worker shortages that followed the end of COVID-19 lockups, are still reluctant to let go of staff.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
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

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

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The governor’s office acknowledged the small cages on Monday, following the release of the report.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
Deputies found and documented dead animals on the property, including remains found in cages and other areas, according to the post.

— River Valley Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of cages

Noun

But the gates leading into the ostrich pens were now behind police lines.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The youngest raccoons will spend a few weeks mostly indoors being bottle-fed by rehabbers until they’re vaccinated for diseases carried by cat colonies and dogs and are ready to move to outdoor pens.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

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