as in amnesty
permission given to a prisoner to leave prison before the end of a sentence usually as a reward for behaving well
The prisoner will be eligible for parole after three years. He was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Recent Examples of parole
Susan Mallie, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
In October, then-District Attorney George Gascón moved to reduce the brothers’ sentence from life without parole to 50 years to life.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
Under the Biden administration, over a million people were paroled into the U.S., meaning they were admitted legally into the U.S. under temporary programs.
—Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The 64-year-old was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
—Susan Mallie, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
In October, then-District Attorney George Gascón moved to reduce the brothers’ sentence from life without parole to 50 years to life.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
The program drew even more scrutiny after Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national paroled into the U.S. under CHNV in 2022, attacked and ultimately killed University of Georgia Student Laken Riley.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
Under the Biden administration, over a million people were paroled into the U.S., meaning they were admitted legally into the U.S. under temporary programs.
—Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parole
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The men who abducted Paiva were indicted by federal prosecutors in 2014—but they have been protected by an amnesty law, passed as the regime was coming to an end, which has effectively kept the country from reckoning with the savagery of military rule.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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This month, though, Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced an amnesty program wherein all of those penalties have been waived.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Like the more than a hundred political prisoners released under the Vatican deal, Ferrer and Navarro were not given a pardon or amnesty but were released on conditional parole.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
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In his first term, Trump did not issue a pardon until August 2017, about half a year after taking office.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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To protect a batch of sea turtle eggs from possible poachers, the group rescued them and hatched them in a lab before releasing 100 baby sea turtles into the ocean.—
Terry Baddoo,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Frank Guzman, a Fire Rescue spokesman, said lifeguards rescued several of Hyppolite’s friends, who were also struggling in the rough water, but were unable to locate the teen.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
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This could suggest that while attackers are targeting more victims, fewer are giving in to ransom demands.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
7 Feb. 2025
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While Mikhail managed to escape by climbing out a window and taking refuge in a nearby nunnery, the men took his son hostage, and Mikhail was not able to ransom him until several days later.—
Youmna Melhem Chamieh,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Parole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parole. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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