as in confinement
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Lira was sentenced to four months in federal prison and four months of home confinement and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026 -
Unlike several of the other artists on view, his confinement is the result of political repression rather than mental illness.—
Miguel Sirgado,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 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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The photos were never published in the UK and was immediately overshadowed by the news of Kate Middleton’s pregnancy.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
7 Mar. 2026
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That’s an entire pregnancy’s worth of time spent trying to figure out what to call her baby boy.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Lying-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lying-in. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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