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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
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Hidden passageways, dungeons frozen in time, and eerie corridors are like catnip for those with a proclivity toward the paranormal.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the most eyebrow-raising discovery was the remains of a 16th-century dungeon.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The other defendant was handed 10 years in prison for spying on behalf of France, five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime against national security, and 17 years of imprisonment for assisting Israeli intelligence services.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Co-directed by filmmaker Toia Bonino and incarcerated Marcos Joubert, Do or Die is a rare, intimate portrait of prison life and a meditation on cinema itself—filmed entirely on a phone behind bars.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
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Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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Grayson has been held in the Macon County jail ahead of his trial.—
Deena Zaru,
ABC News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Portlaoise Prison, which is in the center of Ireland, is a nineteenth-century penitentiary built like a fortress—a one-star establishment, at best.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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If found guilty of a level 5 felony, Sanchez could be imprisoned anywhere from one to six years at an Indiana penitentiary and fined up to $10,000, according to the Indiana Code.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
12 Oct. 2025
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Sanders had uncovered in 2014 that Rackauckas’ prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies for years had illegally used jailhouse informants to coax confessions from defendants who had attorneys, in violation of their right to counsel.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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Court records weren't immediately available in that case, but Luchin admitted to attempting to rob a bank in jailhouse interviews at the time.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 22 Oct. 2025.
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