as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison
if they catch you, they're going to lock you up and throw away the key!
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During Lungu's presidency, then-opposition leader Hichilema was imprisoned for four months on treason charges that were ultimately dropped.
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He was imprisoned for organizing the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki in 1934.
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Catis was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to possessing and intending to distribute nitazenes.
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In December 2020, prosecutors in Caddo Parish, in northwest Louisiana, dropped rape and kidnapping charges that had kept him jailed for 18 months, which stemmed from a 2016 accusation.
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Truell, a New York City native, interned at Google, while Sanger, a member of MIT’s squash team, interned at Bridgewater Associates.
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Jorcius’ younger brother interned at Blue Swan Boulders, a rock-climbing gym in downtown Orlando.
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Bailee was born when Jelly Roll was 23 and incarcerated for drug dealing.
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Others incarcerated at Aliceville were facing life-threatening health conditions, and made to navigate the same dead-end bureaucracy.
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The suspect planned out his attack, and specifically chose a place that would be confined and populated, Patel said.
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Because for security reasons and all kinds of other reasons, you are confined.
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“Locked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked%20%28up%29. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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