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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His father, a former military officer, was imprisoned following the Iranian revolution until his mother was able to negotiate his release with prison guards, according to reporting by the New York Times.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025 -
Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.—
Anna Chernova,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sandeen had an initial hearing Friday on the Ramsey County charges and remained jailed on $100,000 bail.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
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These days, she gets paid to perform those same songs three days a week for tourists in Honolulu’s Iolani Palace in the imprisonment room where Queen Liliʻuokalani was jailed 130 years ago.—
Matt Negrin,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
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Coppola interned with Chanel in the summer of 1986, and her youngest Cosima followed in her footsteps by interning with the house this summer.—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps less known, but likely no less significant, some 700 Japanese Americans were briefly interned here during World War II.—
Don Sproul,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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New to valley fever Typically, those most at risk are people exposed to soil when it's disturbed ‒ farmworkers, construction workers and prison inmates incarcerated in arid, remote areas.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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Mauthe has two sons, ages 6 and 8, and a husband, who is currently incarcerated, according to CBS Pittsburgh.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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But in the context of Mexico’s yearslong security crisis, that vein of advice taken to its logical conclusion would keep most women confined to within walking distance of their homes.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
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When confined to extremely small spaces, such as inside proteins, minerals, or artificial nanomaterials, water behaves very differently from its bulk liquid form.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Locked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked%20%28up%29. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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