as in to jail
to put in or as if in prison
some Polish citizens were interned in Russian camps during World War II
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as in resident
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as in reader
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Recent Examples of intern
Max Gao, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Jalen Williams is a reporting intern at the Detroit Free Press.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Grey helps save the life of a new surgical intern played by Jade Petty.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
There is another intern-attending romance afoot at Seattle Grace.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Meredith ends up operating — albeit in the clinic — on an intern named Dani (Jade Pettyjohn) who suffered a blunt force trauma during the blast.
—Max Gao, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Jalen Williams is a reporting intern at the Detroit Free Press.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Grey helps save the life of a new surgical intern played by Jade Petty.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
There is another intern-attending romance afoot at Seattle Grace.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intern
Verb
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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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With nearly one-third of Los Angeles County's 10 million residents being foreign-born, the declaration has significant social and economic implications, especially for immigrant and mixed-status families.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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Gas from Tehran fuels nearly a third of Iraq's electricity generation, yet frequent and prolonged outages remain common, forcing residents to rely on costly, polluting private generators.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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That blend has endeared Weiss to readers and power players in Los Angeles, where her friendship with A-List celebrities and media moguls has been well documented.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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In the first round, readers weighed in on their favorite candy apples, pies, beer and cider.—
Angelika Ytuarte,
jsonline.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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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Her mother, Caitlin MacLaren, is a nurse and South Miami resident.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Helping patients means helping nurses After getting her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Cincinnati, Holt began working as a clinical nurse in the neuroscience unit at UC Health, then called University of Cincinnati Hospital.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Erica Boothby is a social psychologist and senior lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.—
Maya Rossignac-Milon
Erica Boothby,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The book follows Maggie McCabe, a former combat surgeon who becomes involved in a conspiracy after losing her medical license.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
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How much to rely on that bot – and when to let go – is a moral quandary for the surgeon.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Miner preachers and independent churches were central to the organization of miners in eastern Kentucky in the 1930s, too, during another period of violence between mine operators and miners over conditions, wages and unionization.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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Carolyn Smith, the late preacher’s daughter, said her father — like Pendleton a Knoxville College graduate — was instrumental in recruiting Pendleton and other Black educators to teach in San Diego.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Intern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intern. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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