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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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Double whatever dungeon loot there’s going to be.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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And so there's this castle that has these massive dungeons .—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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My dad would always play documentaries about prison life and stuff that would come on Discovery ID or, every now and then, even national news segments.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Through the deal, prosecutors dropped the two murder charges — and shipped Henry, 26, off to prison for 10 years — in exchange for his plea.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Young Thug has been at the center of controversy over the past several days, as recordings of jailhouse calls made while he was incarcerated during the YSL trial have leaked online.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
2 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
Noun
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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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