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Recent Examples of impoundment Facebook posts indicate that Ing’s fish was caught from a carp impoundment, and subsequently released into a different pond. Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2025 If the president acts unilaterally to withhold from expenditure funds lawfully provided, those actions could be considered impoundment—a practice prohibited by law. Doug Criscitello, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 The Supreme Court has never directly weighed in on whether impoundment is constitutional. Molly Redden, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2024 Vought did not venture into impoundment in his Project 2025 chapter. Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for impoundment 
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Noun
  • Naama Levy, one of the four female IDF soldiers released from Hamas captivity on Saturday, is speaking out for the first time.
    Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • On their 477th — and last — day of captivity, the four young women, who had been captured in their pajamas, were paraded in soldiers' uniforms before standing on a stage at the head of the square.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Human rights groups say Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities have faced a raft of human rights abuses in the region, including being placed in mass internment camps.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Human rights groups have accused China of detaining over 1 million Uyghurs in mass internment camps and engaging in systematic forced labor, torture, rape, and forced sterilization as part of a broader campaign of assimilation.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Released in 2015 — three years into his incarceration — Viking became Kartel’s fourth consecutive project to reach the top 10 of Reggae Albums (No. 3).
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Funds will be steered toward expanding its payor and health system partnerships and providing more services to high-risk populations, including adults in the criminal justice system, where the company sees telehealth as a means of providing consistent care from incarceration to reentry.
    Erin Brodwin, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other times, the artwork responded directly to the men’s day-to-day conditions of confinement.
    Alexandra Moore, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Emanuel Pugh, 26, was charged Tuesday with strangulation, two counts of domestic battery resulting in bodily injury to a pregnant woman, two counts of criminal confinement, and one count of domestic battery.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025

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“Impoundment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoundment. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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