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paroled

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verb

past tense of parole

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Recent Examples of paroled
Verb
Despite a recent spate of violent offenders being paroled at relatively high rates under the Mattis decision, the overall parole rate has shrunk from 65% to 57% under Chair Angelo Gomez. Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026 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
  • Natalie did get rescued that summer, by Dimitri Marick, a new character who opened up an entire new canvas on All My Children.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • The blaze was extinguished with the help of eight fire engines, and more than 40 people were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals, Delhi police said in a statement.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • The freed men first served their sentences at the Ramo Verde military prison, but were transferred to the Lara prison five years ago.
    Gustavo Ocando Alex, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • The ministry identified the freed captives as Russian citizen Oleg Gret and Ukrainian citizen Yuri Yurov.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Apr. 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
  • Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Freyre said he's been dreaming of a liberated Cuba since almost immediately after Castro took over.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.
    Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
  • When Winter was 14 years old, she was placed in the care of her older sister and three years later, she was legally emancipated.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • These tickets must be redeemed at a Florida Lottery office.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
  • Qatar lost all of their games in 2022 but redeemed themselves a year later by retaining the Asian Cup with a 3-1 victory over Jordan.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • Kahanamoku not only saved lives using his surfboard that fateful day off Corona del Mar, but the use of rescue boards was adopted around the world in the following years because of that rescue.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • Though locals were relieved to see that the basketball courts were saved, concerns over the redesign remained.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Afterward, the water is discharged into the Sacramento River through an 800-foot-long pipe, with a portion siphoned off for crop irrigation.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
  • Standing by a jetty where undrinkable water gets discharged back into the Pacific from the Carlsbad plant, McDonough says aggressive conservation by farms as well as urban water recycling will go much further toward averting taps from running dry.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 3 June 2026

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“Paroled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paroled. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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