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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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The men escape, but their frantic exit leads them through the gruesome Terminus food-supply dungeon, where fresh corpses hang on meathooks.
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This is just one in a sweaty dungeon of hundreds of TikTok videos that show women being stalked, grabbed, tortured, tossed to the ground, and handcuffed by scary masked soldiers.
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If convicted as charged, Wilburn faces up to 14 years in prison, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office told CNN.
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Pope was a lieutenant in the Special Investigative Service (SIS) unit at the prison at the time of the offenses.
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To get there, Sodais climbed mountains in the snow, moved from border to border with the help of smugglers, got captured a dozen times and spent time in jail.
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Ábalos, who spent seven months in jail before his trial in April, is accused of taking kickbacks from the purchase of $60 million-worth of facemasks during the Covid pandemic.
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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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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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Since the documentary was released on May 15, police have released text messages between Shirilla and her boyfriend, Russo, as well as jailhouse calls and bodycam footage from the day of the crash, according to Fox 8.
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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 29 Jun. 2026.
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