INTERNES Synonyms: 134 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of intern

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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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noun

variants also internes

plural of intern

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Only 65 people rebooked into those counties’ jails two or more times through June 2026 were eventually released on bond.

— Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2026
The facility is one of 11 Kentucky jails that contract with ICE to detain people.

— Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Feb. 2026

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Hundreds of mourners later gathered at Rehman Baba cemetery for mass funeral prayers as grief gripped the neighborhood and announcements echoed from mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to join in prayers for those killed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Under constant threats from above, residents live largely in a spider’s world, with roads, sidewalks and gas stations draped in netting to entangle drones.

— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026

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On the main floor is a room dedicated to books for both young adult and adult readers, including genres like nonfiction, fiction, romance, historical fiction, thrillers and more.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2026
Graham’s poetry—as readers of The New York Review will know—somehow manages to reckon with the whole spectrum of human existence in the 2020s.

— Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

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Some progressives saw the former prosecutor as part of a criminal justice establishment that disproportionately imprisons Black men.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
The King imprisons the miller’s daughter in a room and orders her to prove her magical ability under pain of death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

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After more than a year of negotiations and a proposal from the CSU to increase salaries by 3%, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
In June, about 70% of voting non-tenure-track faculty approved unionizing under United Faculty-UAW, which seeks to represent roughly 2,700 USC lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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Places like Los Angeles and Oakland have high permit fees and strict zoning that often confines cans to industrial areas.

— Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
In an industry that often confines its actors, especially women and especially Black women, Hall continues to carve a path defined by risk, depth and courage.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025

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Once the hallmark of bikers, sailors, and general riff-raff, tattoos have become far more mainstream, decorating the bodies of everyone from teachers to lawyers to world-class surgeons.

— Mike McRae October 09, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2026
Crafting the ‘nudge’ As an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, Carleton spent two summers working in a Johns Hopkins prostate cancer lab and was surprised to see surgeons making a point to attend the department’s journal club.

— Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

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