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Recent Examples of inmate
An inmate who was shot and killed by a corrections officer during a fight at a Tucson hospital where the man was receiving treatment has been identified as Nathan Peru, 31.
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Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
An election for Wyandotte County sheriff this November comes on the heels of a year fraught with hardships for the department, including a deputy’s line of duty death and a jail worker charged with murder after an inmate died at the county detention center.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Since his arrest, Iza has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A., which holds federal inmates awaiting trial, who can range from white-collar criminals to cartel enforcers.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Investigators determined that Molina-Caraballo was the former inmate behind the scheme and began monitoring his activities.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
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Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
An election for Wyandotte County sheriff this November comes on the heels of a year fraught with hardships for the department, including a deputy’s line of duty death and a jail worker charged with murder after an inmate died at the county detention center.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Since his arrest, Iza has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A., which holds federal inmates awaiting trial, who can range from white-collar criminals to cartel enforcers.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Investigators determined that Molina-Caraballo was the former inmate behind the scheme and began monitoring his activities.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmate
prisoner
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Among the Continental soldiers taken prisoner at the Battle of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in 1776, for instance, eighty-nine of two hundred told their redcoat captors they had been born overseas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Another, Alfateh Abdullah Idris, who goes by the nickname Abu Lulu, casually begins firing a Kalashnikov rifle down the row of prisoners.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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