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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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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Sybille Roger-Vasselin’s store near Place de la République, housing her ready-to-wear label Petite Mendigote, was looted on Sunday.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
Main Street spans 140 mostly 19th-century buildings housing 100-plus shops, restaurants, and independent inns.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026

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The country’s remaining detention facilities are severely overcrowded while concerns have been raised about imprisoning gang members in parts of the country not currently under gang control.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Ilham Aliyev continued his father’s dictatorial legacy, imprisoning his critics and enriching his family and cronies, while polishing his country’s image by hosting Formula One events and the Eurovision Song Contest.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026

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Also excluded from the map are the University of Kansas Medical Center and the surrounding corner of Wyandotte County alongside existing STAR bond districts for other projects.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
The third-quarter earnings season is gaining momentum, with investors closely watching corporate outlooks amid rising costs and uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence spending.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

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Some Alvernia students are already interning with federal agencies and completing work that requires secret security clearances.

— Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
High school students interning at an observatory in Hawaii have successfully imaged a pair of colliding spiral galaxies located deep within overlapping cultural constellations.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026

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No further information, including the identity of the neighbor, was available as the case was ongoing, according to Klopping.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The effort, however, has been criticized by some, including politicians and digital rights advocates, for not being aggressively enough enforced since the ban took effect in December 2025.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

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Little Miner’s version isn’t so much a riff as an homage, with a flour tortilla encasing queso sauce, tortilla chips, chipotle aioli, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, sour cream and a choice of proteins.

— Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
The spigots serve as injection ports, where crews can pump grout behind the tunnel wall, with the goal of coating and encasing the entire tunnel lining under the Newtown Creek in a waterproof layer, filling any cracks along the way.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

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Demolishing universities, assaulting the press, violently resegregating the public sphere, ramming degenerative AI down our throats, incarcerating mere zine makers, the regime is systematically repealing the right to culture.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The goal is to reduce violence, get people proper resources, and avoid the cycle of incarcerating people dealing with poverty, addiction, and mental health.

— Scott Maucione, NPR, 27 July 2026

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