IMMURING Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

immuring

verb

present participle of immure

as in housing

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 imprisoning

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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The second and third stories are open to visitors, while the first floor housing the gift shop remains closed.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
About 150 miles from SoFi Stadium, south of the Mexican border, sits the hotel housing Iran’s World Cup team for its games at the Inglewood venue.

— Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026

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The turn of events prompt the narrator to re-examine his life as a gay Latine son of immigrants whose hometown is now imprisoning people like him.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Trump, in one of his Truth Social posts, cited laws against defacing monuments as grounds for imprisoning anyone harming the pool.

— Nathan Ellgren, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026

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Nester also called into question the security protocols surrounding the event, asking Bagley about how many officers were assigned and other preparations.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
All shades, all colors, 4 million faces surrounding them with resounding support and unrequited love.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

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Simmons, a native of Buffalo, New York, got his start interning for Ani DiFranco, whose Righteous Babe Records was based in town.

— Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2026
Pruitt also ran varsity cross-country and track and spent last summer interning for the Henry County Water Authority, tapping into his passion for clean water and the environment.

— Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

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Created in honor of Birds Georgia’s 100-year birthday, the Georgia Birding Trail is a network of locations picked based on accessibility, amenities and wildlife viewing potential, including habitats such as Murphey Candler Park and Reed Creek Park.

— Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 9 July 2026
Known as Citizenship by Investment, the program grants visa-free access to up to 150 countries, including Europe’s Schengen area and, in some cases, the United Kingdom.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026

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Also contentious was last year’s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain.

— Chandra Asmara, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Officials have said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 30 June 2026

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Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.

— Stephanie Shih June 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026

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Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026

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