remanding

verb

present participle of remand
as in incarcerating

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  1. incarcerating
  2. confining
  3. detaining
  4. imprisoning
  5. jailing
  6. restraining
  7. committing
  8. holding
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  • Demolishing universities, assaulting the press, violently resegregating the public sphere, ramming degenerative AI down our throats, incarcerating mere zine makers, the regime is systematically repealing the right to culture.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The goal is to reduce violence, get people proper resources, and avoid the cycle of incarcerating people dealing with poverty, addiction, and mental health.
    — Scott Maucione, NPR, 27 July 2026
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  • Corporations have responded with caution, especially in regulated sectors like banking and healthcare, confining deployments to narrow pilots whose early returns are far more modest than AI enthusiasts advertise.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off.
    — Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of confining
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  • Federal agents were still detaining undocumented immigrants across the state, and Latino residents — the state’s largest ethnic group at 41% — were suffering under the crushing cost of food, gas and housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Police initially arrested two suspects before detaining three more on Sunday near Potchefstroom, about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west-southwest of Johannesburg.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of detaining
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  • Despite its lengthy history of imprisoning Americans on questionable charges, Russia has not faced the designation, which was applied to Iran in February and Afghanistan in March.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Many governments are doing this through surveillance, monitoring social media, doxxing, creating AI deepfakes and even forcibly repatriating critics in exile and imprisoning them.
    — Mary Lind, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of imprisoning
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  • The government has been widely accused of stealing elections, jailing dissidents and stifling freedom of speech.
    — Clyburn Saint John, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Rodríguez's administration denies the country is jailing dissidents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of jailing
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  • Some food employees working with open food are wearing visors which are not effectively restraining their hair.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Raising retirement ages and restraining entitlement growth make the debt more manageable.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of restraining
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  • On the other hand, proponents might argue that reliably identifying individuals at risk of committing serious crimes could benefit society.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
  • In 2024, leaders from city and county government, law enforcement, education, business, arts, nonprofits and faith communities signed it, publicly committing to the dignity and safety of their neighbors.
    — Linda Chapin, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of committing
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  • Michael McCoy, 34, is charged with kidnapping the woman and holding her for three days.
    — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblong-square tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint of chocolate, with brown bread, and an iron spoon.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
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