gulags

plural of gulag

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Noun
  • More than 250 people have died while in the agency’s custody in county jails since 2006, a mortality rate significantly higher than in other large jail systems in the state.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The agency investigates all in-custody deaths which occur in Kansas jails and prisons unless the inmate who died was being regularly attended by a physician or the death is ruled natural by an autopsy.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brown passed through courts and prisons like other people suffering mental health disorders, said Weaver, the Charlotte NAMI director.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The facility, Algoa Correctional Center, is one of four Missouri prisons with no air conditioning in any of the housing units.
    Ivy Scott, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Most effective however is Vanderbilt’s decision to stop the action and simply run the devastating real black-and-white film footage of the slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, concentration camps prove to be a viable political option with a friendly Supreme Court ready to affirm President Cadwallader’s unprecedented use of executive orders.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some private equity or real estate vehicles require multiyear lockups.
    Gregory Clifford, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Now, Russia’s and Ukraine’s Soviet-era tanks rumble across the battlefield covered in anti-drone nets and spikes, dangling chains and unwieldy cages.
    Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Remove tomato cages or stakes and place them in the storage shed.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The next-biggest culprit was vape pens, responsible for 21% of incidents.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025.
    Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Gulags.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulags. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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