as in to imprison
to put in or as if in prison
the state incarcerated over 1900 people last year
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Recent Examples of incarcerate
Co-directed by filmmaker Toia Bonino and incarcerated Marcos Joubert, Do or Die is a rare, intimate portrait of prison life and a meditation on cinema itself—filmed entirely on a phone behind bars.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Exantus is currently incarcerated in a Marion County jail without bond.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
He is incarcerated in the El Dorado Correctional Facility in El Dorado, Kansas, serving 10 consecutive life sentences.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Susan Atkins died of cancer in prison in 2009; Manson himself died of natural causes while incarcerated in 2017.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Exantus is currently incarcerated in a Marion County jail without bond.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
He is incarcerated in the El Dorado Correctional Facility in El Dorado, Kansas, serving 10 consecutive life sentences.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Susan Atkins died of cancer in prison in 2009; Manson himself died of natural causes while incarcerated in 2017.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarcerate
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When he is imprisoned on the basis of false testimony, with no hope of release, the intrepid Mercédès tries to break him out of jail.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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The last battle in CaliforniaThe Modocs who had attacked peace commissioners were imprisoned at Fort Klamath, where they were tried and convicted of murder.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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The state can fairly easily police the requirement that Max be installed on new phones by threatening phone companies that don’t comply or even jailing their executives.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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Orwell was thinking about a society where people who spoke out were jailed, potentially executed and were kind of disappeared.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Incarcerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarcerate. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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