Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliettes
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Start exploring from the dungeons with sweeping ocean views at Castillo San Felipe del Morro, the city's vast colonial fortress.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Dec. 2025 -
Beyond rivals the finest Zelda dungeons with its ability to present you with a litany of ingenious puzzles to solve and levels to navigate, micro tasks to complete, and macro goals to accomplish.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
2 Dec. 2025
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One of the biggest components of the capital program is the construction of replacement jails to enable, in theory, the closure of Rikers Island.—
Eric Kober,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Accordingly, internment camp authorities sent the resisters to local jails outside the camp, then transferred them to Tulelake Camp, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp repurposed to jail the men who rejected the loyalty questionnaire.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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On January 31, the domestic oppositionists Abdollah Momeni, Mehdi Mahmoudian, and Vida Rabbani were swept up and sent to prisons in northern Iran, far from their Tehran residences.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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With the exponential rise of deranged talking heads, private prisons, Amazon-like concentration camps, Cop City, local police trained by the Israeli Army, and AI technology to develop inconceivable weapons, the apocalypse does not appear far off.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The wave of prison violence is happening despite the deployment of military and police forces in several penitentiaries.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
8 Dec. 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
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Thousands of Liam Ramoses remain in filthy cages.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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Core concepts carry over from Edwards’ two signature models through large synthetic cages running down its sides, as well as the shapes of its toe box.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Oubliettes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliettes. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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