as in confinement
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Those are federal requests to local law enforcement to detain individuals for up to 48 hours after they're set to be released from criminal confinement — which gives ICE time to decide whether to take them into custody to begin deportation proceedings.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Her daughters are struggling with the confinement.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2026
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After the violence of the childbed, women were then expected to perform domestic labor that was expressly gendered and acknowledged as backbreaking.—
Time,
Time,
20 Jan. 2023
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Burden wrote that James was excited about each and involved with her pregnancies, but after their second child was born, he was promoted to president at his investment firm and began pulling away from daily parenting duties.—
Emily Trainham,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor) is part of a tradition of horror films fixated on the grotesque transformative aspects of pregnancy.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Lying-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lying-in. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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