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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.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper’s Magazine ,
7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
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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
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Prison life hasn't been easy on Otto, who has dungeon hair, sunken eyes and a scraggly beard.
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When Daemon goes to kill Orwyle – heads must roll, after all, and Aegon is nowhere to be found – Orwyle sends him to the dungeons for Lord Wylde.
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The pair, who were detained in March, had already spent four months in prison prior to the punishment, which ultimately reduced their sentence from 25 lashes to 21, the AP said.
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Taylor, 30, now faces a potential sentence of life in prison.
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The driver of the fleeing vehicle was booked into the Wyandotte County Detention Center, according to the jail’s inmate listing.
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Epstein served about 13 months in a Florida jail, and was often permitted to leave the jail on work release.
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Two years ago, a judge freed Anthony Bailey after 27 years in the federal penitentiary, giving him a second chance at life.
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After a federal jury voted to convict him in early 2024, Hernández was sent to a notorious high-security penitentiary in West Virginia to serve his time.
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In addition, investigators working for Duncan’s legal team interviewed a jailhouse informant who recanted his earlier trial testimony that Duncan had confessed to the crime.
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Watkins told me in our jailhouse interview in 2018 that Cherica Adams was actually the fifth person he had been hired to kill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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