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Recent Examples of jailerFellow inmates told jailers that Fomby was the one who smuggled in the deadly drugs.—Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025 Garzón had given a letter to his jailers written in Spanish, requesting to speak to his mother by telephone.—Jesse Bogan, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2025 The most popular model for the partnership is one where county jailers notify ICE when unauthorized immigrants are booked into their jails.—Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2025 Those jailers, Rafael Moreno and Joel Garcia, remain listed as defendants alongside six other guards allegedly involved in the altercation.—Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jailer
But unless data is truly replicated widely, availability still hinges on just a few custodians.
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Viktor Trón,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
The showrunners have worked closely with the Preservation Society of Newport County, custodian of more than a dozen historic residences, to get the kind of access that’s rarely granted to film crews.
In the finale to Squid Game Season 2, the Squid Game competitors rise up against their captors.
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Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
With their men slaughtered, local women in the epic like Briseis are driven to a horrific existence, enslaved by their Greek captors and the killers of their fathers, husbands and brothers—utterly powerless victims of war, subject to the soldiers’ every whim, including rape.
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