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gulags

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plural of gulag

as in jails

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Of the more than $3 billion that Miami-Dade plans to collect in property taxes next year, roughly 70 cents of every dollar fund the county’s Sheriff’s Office, fire department, jails, roads and transit costs, and Jackson, the Herald analysis found.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
In fact, in 2022, a year after the Humphrey decision, 74% of people in California jails were still unsentenced and awaiting trial.

— Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of jails

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Gangs destroyed three of Haiti’s main prisons in early 2024, and those still operating are severely overcrowded.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Some of the most difficult positions to fill have been state troopers, correction officers in the prisons, and nurses in psychiatric hospitals.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 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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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
Xinjiang is home to many Uyghurs, a Muslim minority that the Chinese government has subjected to surveillance, forced labor and detainment in concentration camps.

— Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 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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Last week, biologists opened pens and freed two birds early, worried they might be killed.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Debra Kissen, clinical director of Light On Anxiety in Chicago, told Today that discreet fidgeting is more socially acceptable than clicking pens or spinning gadgets.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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