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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliettes
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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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Meanwhile, Willingham, Riegel, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, and sometimes special guests, played the characters who delved through dungeons and fought at least five (5) dragons.
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The goal is to eventually close the island to incarcerated individuals in a decarceration plan, replacing it with four other jails in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.
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The borough jails won't be ready and Rikers' current population of about 6,700 inmates surpasses the 4,100-bed capacity of the new facilities.
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There were also provisions in the main budget bill (HB 5001E) that tied $91 million in pay increases for corrections officers to the approval of the prisons bill, so those salary hikes are also nixed.
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Tampons and pads also are limited in many prisons, and Sellars said some women are left with no choice but to openly bleed.
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This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.
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Behind bars in state penitentiaries in Gatesville and Marlin, Mejia felt forgotten.
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Penalty kicks in concrete cages, long-range screamers in top-flight stadiums.
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Scott’s eyes were fixed on the youngest age group driving Go Karts with cages on top to protect from injury.
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“Oubliettes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliettes. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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