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Recent Examples of inmate
Thirty-one state inmates were killed in California in 2025, the most violent of the last five years.
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
He is being held without bail at a Los Angeles jail, inmate records show.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026
That was the catalyst that granted about 100 Florida Death Row inmates, including Braddy, the opportunity for a new sentencing.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Conditions at the Brooklyn detention center are famously brutal, and include power failures that have left inmates without heat for days during winter.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
He is being held without bail at a Los Angeles jail, inmate records show.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026
That was the catalyst that granted about 100 Florida Death Row inmates, including Braddy, the opportunity for a new sentencing.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Conditions at the Brooklyn detention center are famously brutal, and include power failures that have left inmates without heat for days during winter.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
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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 11 Jan. 2026.
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