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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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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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Then later, a week after the testing was done, state inspectors discovered that about a dozen residents who had been exposed to COVID-19 were being housed in the same rooms as a slew of residents who hadn’t.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The new eatery is located in a historic building that formerly housed Eric's Porter-Haus steakhouse.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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While jailed, Braddy also became known for delaying his first trial by going through 10 lawyers and, at one point, representing himself.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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Chavez was jailed for two years, but emerged as the leading presidential candidate in 1998 on a socialist revolutionary platform.—
James Trapani,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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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More than 6,000 people have been killed and 22,000 political prisoners remain caged.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Impressive, but safely confined to prototypes and concept demos.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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For best results, install traps along walls, under appliances, and in other dark corners where mice are active and check the traps daily so mice don’t stay confined for long.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
7 Jan. 2026
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Scott moved to New York City and attended the Culinary Institute of New York in 2009, and later interned at the Food Network.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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By June 1945, some 400 POWs were interned at the camp.—
George Castle,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Cam Newton Experience this weekend won’t just be encased in a stadium.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2026
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This means that heavy elements like rock and metal are dissolved and encased in a thick mantle of metallic hydrogen enveloped in a massive atmospheric cloak of multi-colored clouds of ammonium hydrosulphide.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Monday, that same man was a criminal defendant incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York’s Brooklyn borough, having just been arraigned on drug trafficking, narcoterrorism and weapons charges.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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He has never been incarcerated; he has never even been arrested.—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Immured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immured. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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