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
  • The Sandra Bland Act signed into law in 2017 requires that county jails help get inmates with mental health and substance abuse issues treatment, and help expedite the bailing process for those who meet these requirements.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026
  • Today, there are more than sixty thousand people in ICE jails across the country, up from thirty-nine thousand in January, 2025.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of jails
Noun
  • Politicians and candidates want to build prisons there (as if this were a solution).
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • Widdecombe was in the House of Commons from 1987 to 2010, serving in roles including prisons minister in Prime Minister John Major’s 1990s Conservative government.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Definition of prisons
Noun
  • 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
  • Behind bars in state penitentiaries in Gatesville and Marlin, Mejia felt forgotten.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
Definition of penitentiaries
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  • More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of concentration camps
Noun
  • 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
  • In at least 38 instances, the ring flew six large-payload drones to deliver contraband to federal lockups in Atlanta and Jesup, and at prisons in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 25 June 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
  • The agency ordered contractors to not use bars or cages when transporting families and unaccompanied children.
    — JACK BROOK, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Penalty kicks in concrete cages, long-range screamers in top-flight stadiums.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 June 2026
Definition of cages
Noun
  • School supply donations can include pens, pencils, notebooks, loose-leaf paper, folders, dry-erase markers, chalk, highlighters and staples.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
  • Beyond your computer, there are notebooks, pens, sunglasses, chargers, phone cords, keys, wallets and important papers.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Definition of pens
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