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paroled

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verb

past tense of parole

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Recent Examples of paroled
Verb
He was paroled in January 2010 and discharged from parole in July 2012. Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroled
Verb
  • Kalee was rescued in Alaska in 2018 after suffering an injury.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Knowing his Chilean heritage, local TV news outlets once interviewed Keno as miners were being rescued following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The passage of time is cleverly conveyed through a variety of devices, from the sitcoms on Jacki’s TV screen (Cheers gives way to Seinfeld) and the age of the (offstage) dog that Jacki hopes to someday share and raise with a freed Nick.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Freedom after a year Upon leaving prison, several of the freed cadets described their release as bittersweet, noting that many detainees remain behind bars.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Her cousins and aunt were ransomed and released in Lebanon; Caroline was taken separately, chosen by an ISIS emir, and has never been found.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Freyre said he's been dreaming of a liberated Cuba since almost immediately after Castro took over.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Colorado law ties teens to their parents unless they can get emancipated by the court.
    Fraidy Reiss, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The actress would go on to struggle with addiction issues and in February 1991, emancipated herself at the age of 14.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • In total, winners in British Columbia have redeemed more than $28 million from the nationwide lottery game.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Prizes may not be substituted for or redeemed for cash.
    CBS LA Staff, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • So far, the Oakland Zoo has saved 33 mountain lions, part of a broader shift among accredited zoos toward rescue and rehabilitation over traditional exhibitions.
    Itay Hod, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Zar took issue with those findings, saying access to water often made the difference for homes that were saved and those that were lost.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Christina Snow was discharged from the hospital Wednesday after being shot in the face, Berry told CNN.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Police say the woman was transported to a hospital for observation and was discharged later that day.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026

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“Paroled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paroled. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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