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remand

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verb

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Recent Examples of remand
Noun
The organization reports that its members have been arrested 3,300 times to date, with seven currently in prison, eight on remand, and sixteen awaiting sentencing. News Desk, Artforum, 31 Mar. 2025 Action for Children’s mother and baby units provide a dedicated place for new and expectant mothers serving a prison sentence or on remand, Kate’s office at Kensington Palace said. Simon Perry, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
On August 22, Heimann appeared before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and was remanded in custody pending his transfer to Maine, where his original offenses allegedly took place. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 Finally, in 1989, the Southern District of Ohio recognized the broad authority of the Commissioner as the real party-in-interest in denying Pete Rose’s motion to remand his lawsuit back to Ohio state court. Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for remand
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remand
Noun
  • The detention in March of Tufts doctoral candidate Rumeysa Ozturk was captured on a video that depicted a man in a hoodie stopping her on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Small trailers carrying water tanks and portable toilets were brought into each compound, though some camps eventually received more adequate plumbing over the course of the detention operations.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors sent the Bukele government an extradition request for Melgar, who was jailed in El Salvador at the time, according to Salvadoran court records.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Dubov was part of Convers Sports Initiatives, alongside Vladimir Antonov, a Russian businessman later jailed for his role in a multi-million-dollar bank fraud.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the rapper was found not guilty of three of the counts in the federal indictment, his attorney argued that he should be sent to home confinement.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The two Tucson residents pleaded guilty in federal court in 2009, where one was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and the other to six months of home confinement and 100 hours of community service.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Miami Herald interviewed more than 30 Venezuelan families who had husbands, brothers and sons detained.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • However, Israel has said that four Italian citizens who were detained from the flotilla have been deported while the rest of the deportations are being processed.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Zuazo and Hernandez each were charged with one count of first-degree felony murder and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His aggressive defense tactics—including refusing to reveal sources and challenging judicial conduct—led to his brief imprisonment and ultimately the removal of the presiding Judge, Ural Glanville.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rocha’s father was a gang member, Reynolds said, and incarcerated during his childhood.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Combs, 55, will be incarcerated for 50 months, roughly four years, for the two prostitution counts of which he was convicted in July, Judge Arun Subramanian revealed during a hearing in Manhattan federal court this afternoon.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although this situation has been the hardest and darkest time in my life, good things have come out of my incarceration.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Over the 1990s, Washington seized on that opacity to transform the base into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse in their home countries.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Four people have been sentenced for animal cruelty after keeping over 30 dogs and seven ferrets confined to a single room in a Bethel home.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Remand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remand. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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