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as in captivity
the act of confining or the state of being confined
he was bored and frustrated by his incarceration in the quarantine
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as in imprisonment
the state of being held in lawful custody
sentenced to six months of incarceration for dealing in narcotics
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Recent Examples of incarceration
Claude Guéant, Sarkozy's ex-chief of staff, was sentenced to six years in prison but spared immediate incarceration for health reasons.
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Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
What Happens Next Prosecutors have one month to notify Sarkozy of the date of his incarceration.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Neither a lengthy period of incarceration nor a pardon will cure people like Meredith of their conspiratorial mind-set, the expert told me.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
None of the men — including Lennon, who details the murder that led to his incarceration — attempt to convince us of their innocence.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
What Happens Next Prosecutors have one month to notify Sarkozy of the date of his incarceration.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Neither a lengthy period of incarceration nor a pardon will cure people like Meredith of their conspiratorial mind-set, the expert told me.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
None of the men — including Lennon, who details the murder that led to his incarceration — attempt to convince us of their innocence.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarceration
Noun
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The law that banned whale captivity did not apply to the existing population of captive whales at Marineland, but the park had to comply with another part of the law that forbade breeding.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement During captivity Sharabi ached for his life in Be’eri—which as a kibbutz, or commune, is the original expression of the interdependence on which Israel functions.—
Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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The titan Chronos, patriarch to all the gods, returns to get revenge for his imprisonment at the hands of his children, taking control of Tartarus and simultaneously waging war on the mortal world via Mount Olympus.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Chokr faced a maximum of up to 15 years’ imprisonment, according to officials.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
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Beginning with the Haitian internment in 1991, Washington seized on Guantánamo’s ambiguous sovereignty to illegally and indefinitely detain asylum-seekers.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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In recent weeks, the National Park Service has removed signs referencing climate change, slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans, and the massacre of Native Americans from multiple parks and historic sites around the country.—
Outside,
Outside,
26 Sep. 2025
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The detention in March of Tufts doctoral candidate Rumeysa Ozturk was captured on a video that depicted a man in a hoodie stopping her on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Small trailers carrying water tanks and portable toilets were brought into each compound, though some camps eventually received more adequate plumbing over the course of the detention operations.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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The story would feature voluminous evidence, including Salvadoran intelligence reports, government documents and even prison logs recording the visits of Luna and other Bukele aides to MS-13 leaders.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Both Menendez brothers remain in prison after having been denied parole in August of this year, and, in September, a judge denied their petition for a new trial.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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After the rapper was found not guilty of three of the counts in the federal indictment, his attorney argued that he should be sent to home confinement.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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The two Tucson residents pleaded guilty in federal court in 2009, where one was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and the other to six months of home confinement and 100 hours of community service.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Incarceration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarceration. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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