immurements

plural of immurement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immurements
Noun
  • The incarcerations have been part of Bukele’s controversial efforts to stem the high crime rates and gang violence that have plagued the country for years.
    Michael Rios, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Body Politic uplifts Baltimore’s relative success in decreasing the city’s homicide and violent crime rate while not increasing incarcerations or the rate of citizen-police interactions.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Whatever the state gathers—whether the innocuous, the personal, or the intensely political—could in turn be used for arrests, detentions, fines, disappearances, and much worse.
    Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • No new entities have been added to the list, and CBP’s detentions have fallen.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Immurements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immurements. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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