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Recent Examples of Synonyms for house arrests
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The intimacy of his quick, typically posed captures stands apart from the images on the wires during each fashion season.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025 -
Set in the 1970s and 1980s, the drama covers both of Zende’s captures of Sobhraj.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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One was that the workers be transported from a detention facility to the Atlanta airport without handcuffs or other physical restraints.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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An inspector found a fly strip over a prep table and employees not wearing hair restraints while preparing food, county documents show.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Crime has been down across the District, though many residents have expressed their displeasure and raised concerns that immigration arrests have been a central part of the crackdown.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
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Videos of arrests and detainments circulated on social media.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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The leadership change comes as CoreCivic and GEO Group - the country's two largest private prison systems - have reported significant profits amid the sharp rise in immigration arrests and detainments.—
Kelly Puente,
Nashville Tennessean,
19 Aug. 2025
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