jailer

variants also jailor
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Recent Examples of jailer Investigators looking into that case determined jailers had been late on three checks, which meant Stewart was unmonitored in his cell for nearly an hour. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025 China is the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, with at least 124 media workers behind bars, RSF said. Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025 Black Warrant carved out a distinct voice in the crime genre by flipping the lens—from the prisoner to the jailer. Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 The county coroner, jailer, and treasurer were Black, as was the register of deeds. Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 25 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for jailer
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Noun
  • The newest season showed Renner's character Mike McLusky confronting a gang war and contending with a headstrong new warden, played by Falco.
    Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Nina Hobbs (Edie Falco), the season's new warden, is collapsing under the weight of her debt to the Colombians, who've forced her into doing their dirty work.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In California, the state fire marshal requires annual inspections of all multi-family residential apartments consisting of three or more units by your local fire authority.
    Rachel Kim, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • They are also marked with the fire marshal’s seal.
    Paris Barraza, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Before her death, Goodall wrote an open letter — shared with PEOPLE by Animals Asia — about her decision to become Robinson's guardian.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Donors should be in good health with no cold, flu, or COVID-19 symptoms, and must be at least 17 years old, or 16 with a parent or guardian’s consent.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Photos, Videos, Journals, and Scrapbooks While old photos, journals, handwritten notes, and other personal archives may not mean much to you at the time, check with family members to see if anyone wants to be the keeper of memories.
    Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Marquette kid Kolek — more and more of a keeper, a wonderful old expression used by an old Marquette coach named Al McGuire — had five assists in 14 minutes.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Overpayments and underpayments occur when changes to employees’ salaries or benefits occur after the payroll cutoff date, said Bismarck Obando, a spokesperson for the controller’s office, which is the custodian of the state’s payroll records.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Taking Back the Control For a long time, the simplest way for a business to hold digital assets was to trust a third-party custodian.
    K.H. Koehler, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sports Equipment While the dishwasher isn't ideal for cleaning baseball caps, uniforms, or equipment heavily-coated with mud, a trip through a dishwasher cycle is ideal to remove bacteria and odors from mouth guards and hard plastic shin guards.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Hurricanes were without guard Gal Raviv, who is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Jailer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailer. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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