house arrests

plural of house arrest

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Noun
  • Freiburghaus captures musician and friend Dino Brandão’s battle with mental illness after a trip to his father’s native country of Angola raises questions about his own sense of identity.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, Open Group’s tragic karaoke tune captures fear, longing, suspense, despair, loss, destruction, displacement, awaiting of news, disappointment in diplomatic solutions, the ecological and human toll of it all.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Three people working on pizzas and other food weren’t wearing hair restraints.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe because children often find ways to circumvent those restraints, 67% of respondents want tech companies to do more to set limits.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kordia, who felt lightheaded, sat on a sidewalk and was swept up in the arrests; she was handcuffed and shuttled by bus to police headquarters, where she was forced to remove her hijab for a search.
    Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The operation also includes officials from more than a dozen federal agencies, including ICE, and has led to more than 800 arrests, according to the Department of Justice.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance comes at a time when the government has antagonized Latino communities, spread anti-Latino rhetoric, and treated immigrants with abject cruelty, callously celebrating images of forceful, often violent arrests and brutal detainments.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Videos of arrests and detainments circulated on social media.
    Jonathan J. Cooper, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2025
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