as in imprisoned
taken and held prisoner
the soldiers daringly rescued their interned comrades without the loss of a single life
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to put in or as if in prison
some Polish citizens were interned in Russian camps during World War II
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Recent Examples of interned
Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Indeed, many of our interns eventually wind up on our staff – roughly one in five members of our staff interned here at some point.
—Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026
During his studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the young chef interned for the restaurant group Caesar's, which is home to several Food Network stars' dining institutions.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
Khalil worked at the British embassy in Lebanon and interned for the United Nations.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
In 2005, McKee began medical school at Ohio State University and interned at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center starting in 2014, records show.
—Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
By June 1945, some 400 POWs were interned at the camp.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Afterward, Driscoll attended Yale Law School, and briefly interned at the Senate Committee for Veterans Affairs, before joining Charlotte investment banking firm BlackArch Partners.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 25 Nov. 2025
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.
—Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Indeed, many of our interns eventually wind up on our staff – roughly one in five members of our staff interned here at some point.
—Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 30 Jan. 2026
During his studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the young chef interned for the restaurant group Caesar's, which is home to several Food Network stars' dining institutions.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
Khalil worked at the British embassy in Lebanon and interned for the United Nations.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
In 2005, McKee began medical school at Ohio State University and interned at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center starting in 2014, records show.
—Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
By June 1945, some 400 POWs were interned at the camp.
—George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Afterward, Driscoll attended Yale Law School, and briefly interned at the Senate Committee for Veterans Affairs, before joining Charlotte investment banking firm BlackArch Partners.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 25 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interned
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Foro Penal, which keeps tabs on imprisoned dissidents and regime opponents, estimates that nearly 400 detainees will not benefit, noting the law covers only a 13-year period of the 27 years of Chavismo.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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Habeas petitions are, as a rule, the last option for an imprisoned person to void their convictions.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
17 Dec. 2025
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Buffalo Police had no updates Friday, but on Thursday released body-camera footage of the 2025 incident that led to Shah Alam being jailed for a year.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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Kwok spoke with The Associated Press on Friday, one day after a Hong Kong court jailed her 69-year-old father, Kwok Yin-sang, for attempting to withdraw roughly $11,000 from her insurance policy.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Froberg, now in his early sixties, has been incarcerated in Alabama since 1996, serving time for robbery and escape from prison.—
Monroe Trombly,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Feb. 2026
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Revisiting the case in December 2024, a Cold Case Unit detective searched the suspects’ profiles against DNA profiles of people incarcerated in Florida prisons to look for possible relatives.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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Driving around Tehran with the captive drugged in the back of a van, Vahid seeks out other former prisoners to confirm the man’s identity and to help decide whether to kill him.—
H. C. Wilentz,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Rather quickly, the bears came out and presumed that Blue Owl cherry-picked the best loans and sold most of them to the three arms-length investors and the rest to the captive insurance company.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
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