as in imprisoned
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as in housed
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers
scientists at the research station in Alaska are immured by the frozen wastelands that surround them
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as in jailed
to put in or as if in prison
immured by a controlling, possessive mother, the young woman had no outside social life
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Adjective
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The most prevalent problem the officer saw among imprisoned immigrants was psychological.—
Amy Maxmen,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Habeas petitions are, as a rule, the last option for an imprisoned person to void their convictions.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
17 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The Children’s Museum and its preschool were housed in a building in the town’s center alongside its lifesize statue of Conny the sperm whale.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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Private school students — who are disproportionately affluent, stably housed and high-performing — are not included in state averages.—
Jill Stegman,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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He was jailed in January 2021 and moved to an Arctic penal colony in late 2023.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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For example, Yasser Abu Shabab, the now-deceased head of one of the gangs, reportedly escaped prison, where he was jailed for drug smuggling.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The 90-minute session also allows visitors to feed caged zookeepers, who are dressed up as pandas, with apple pieces.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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That’s why caged parrots are prone to atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke, Windsor says.—
Rene Ebersole,
Rolling Stone,
18 Nov. 2025
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The night’s highlights for the Aztecs were largely confined to the closing minutes of the first half, when, with 6-6 Tae Simmons playing the 5 with four guards, the Aztecs went on a 14-3 run that gave them a 33-29 lead at the break.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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His girlfriend, a 31-year-old woman identified only by her last name, Arroyo, told police the couple was tied up and confined to a small room while two men made off with valuables from the residence and their car, a 2013 Hyundai Elantra, Surfer Magazine reported.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
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But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.—
Frances Stead Sellers,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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However, instead of being microscopic and embedded in a chip, these valves were incandescent filaments encased in vacuum and glass that were inches long.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2026
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Our approach to understanding the meat computers encased in our skulls has historically varied by discipline.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Jelly Roll was pardoned by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee last December for his past convictions, including robbery and drug felonies for which he was incarcerated at ages 16 and 23, respectively.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
13 Feb. 2026
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Elizabeth Hinton, a professor of history and law at Yale, said the 2005 cutoff disproportionately affects incarcerated young people who are Black.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Immured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immured. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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