as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison
the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them
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The president is supported by the Fuerza Popular party, led by presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori the daughter of a former president who was imprisoned for human rights abuses.—
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17 Feb. 2026 -
Their relationship with Rodwell consists of these daily calls and visits to the North Central Correctional Institution in Gardner, where Rodwell is imprisoned.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Murphy had been jailed since March 2021 when he was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, Whitney Murphy, at their rural home in 2014 to collect life insurance money.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Feb. 2026
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McKay was jailed for nearly a year awaiting trial on state charges, before a federal grand jury returned an indictment in May 2025 charging him with two methamphetamine distribution charges.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
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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
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Ellis was booked into the Orange County Jail on Friday and remained incarcerated as of Saturday afternoon, according to its website.—
Brian Bell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2026
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In the initial script, Becket gets out of jail with Ruth, who had given birth to their child while he was incarcerated, waiting for him.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Jugged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jugged. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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