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Definition of rearrestsnext
plural of rearrest

rearrests

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rearrest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rearrests
Noun
  • Law enforcement also hasn't disclosed whether any arrests have been made.
    Nick Lentz, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Since the law took effect, the city says enforcement has led to 179 citations and 15 arrests.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Despite their felony convictions and impending incarcerations, both former Met police career criminals continue to collect their monthly kisses in the mail — $8,850 a month for Cederquist and $6,020 for Butner.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Baltimore leaders say that 87% of young men enrolled in Roca Baltimore for 24 months have no new incarcerations, while those who stay in the program for three years are 19% less likely to return to a life of crime than other similarly aged men in Maryland.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The judge had ordered that the curtains to the official witness room be opened earlier during a lethal injection, allowing witnesses to observe the inmate being secured with restraints to a gurney and the IV insertion process itself.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Hegseth came out of his own service, in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the seeming conviction that what had stood in the way of a fuller victory in those wars had been the restraints supposedly placed on how soldiers could kill.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The facility is one of 11 Kentucky jails that contract with ICE to detain people.
    Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
  • China, which jails human rights activists in Hong Kong, persecutes Uyghurs, has killed hundreds of thousands of Tibetans and has committed genocide against the Falun Gong, is on the UN Human Rights Council.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In Acts, the disciple Paul endures several imprisonments, turning to God for strength and divine intervention.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Lusverti added that the list of beneficiaries fails to cover key periods of arbitrary detentions, including cases between 2020 and 2024, and raised concerns that the same courts that ordered the imprisonments are now responsible for administering the amnesty.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Belarus now imprisons 28 journalists as President Lukashenko intensifies a crackdown on press freedom.
    Yuras Karmanau, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Afwerki routinely imprisons his critics and political opponents and has implemented a policy of indefinite mandatory military and national service for residents, which human-rights watchdogs say amounts to slavery.
    Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Places like Los Angeles and Oakland have high permit fees and strict zoning that often confines cans to industrial areas.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In an industry that often confines its actors, especially women and especially Black women, Hall continues to carve a path defined by risk, depth and courage.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Data from the Deportation Data Project show that people were being detained in the San Diego holding room more frequently in the latter half of 2025 compared to earlier in the year and during the Biden administration, though monthly detentions in the holding room have dipped slightly during 2026.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Rights groups report hundreds of detentions since the war began, with deteriorating prison conditions and threats of lethal force against new protests.
    Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Rearrests.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rearrests. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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