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Recent Examples of oubliette
One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
Noun
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Dell is her stream's dungeon master, banishing those who don't abide by her terms and steadily rising up the platform's ranks with her sympathetic story and angry-funny screen presence.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Must-visit attractions include the city's gold museum, Museo del Oro Zenú, and Las Bóvedas, where former dungeon cells now hold souvenir shops.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Department of Justice said Steven Anthony Cowles, 45, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The two counts of second-degree assault could carry up to seven years in prison each, if convicted.—
PJ Green
January 7,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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According to county jail records, Sutherland was arrested shortly after midnight Monday morning, with bail set at $50,000.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Arechiga did not enter a plea at his arraignment Monday in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, an 8-year-old in West Baltimore at the time of the murder, offers piercing commentary on the impact of both the initial crime and the succeeding one, the grievously unjust trial that put three kids in the penitentiary.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
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Central Time Wednesday following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But the conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered because prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that a group of jailhouse informants was illegally used to garner incriminating statements by Smith.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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Melly is accused of using jailhouse go-betweens to pressure his ex-girlfriend against cooperating with detectives and investigators in the lead-up to his first murder trial in 2023, which ended in a hung jury.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Jan. 2026
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Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2022
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Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.—
Yxta Maya Murray,
Longreads,
19 Aug. 2020
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For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.—
Robert Kolarik,
San Antonio Express-News,
23 Feb. 2018
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In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Smithsonian,
13 Mar. 2017
Noun
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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