remands 1 of 2

plural of remand

remands

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of remand

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for remands
Noun
  • The facility, under a consent decree since 2017, has eliminated pepper spray and reduced the use of strip searches and restraints.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, investigators with Goodyear police uncovered texts that discussed handcuffing, zip-tying and using other restraints on Sanaa throughout the end of her short life.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Pinault family owns 42 percent of shares in Kering and detains 59 percent of voting rights.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The play is set in the real-life town of Lumpkin, whose economy has become reliant on a private prison that detains immigrants.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Demonstrations this week grew increasingly tense at ICE facilities in Portland and near Chicago, resulting in arrests at both sites.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The private security officers can now enforce laws and make arrests along the entire rail trail, sidewalks surrounding transit centers and other areas adjacent to transit property.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The incarcerations have been part of Bukele’s controversial efforts to stem the high crime rates and gang violence that have plagued the country for years.
    Michael Rios, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Body Politic uplifts Baltimore’s relative success in decreasing the city’s homicide and violent crime rate while not increasing incarcerations or the rate of citizen-police interactions.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Zanardi’s statement provides a glimpse into the way detentions have been conducted as well as the powerful degradation of trust in the system that has led up to two-thirds of immigrants scheduled for hearings to skip them in fear of arrest.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The recent wave of detentions appears to conflict with federal protections granted under TPS, which is specifically designed to shield eligible Venezuelan nationals from deportation due to unsafe conditions in their home country.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Suppose the number is read in one case out of a hundred, and that the information reaches someone who apprehends the culprit in one case out of one thousand.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Video shows the moment an officer in camouflage and tactical gear approaches an individual, after which another officer tackles the person, restrains them with plastic handcuffs, and leads them away.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • An 1878 law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally restrains the use of the military for such purposes.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.
    Jane Ciabattari September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • During a panel on new tendencies in the audiovisual sector, CEO at Professor Octopus AI Laboratory Carlos Fernández de Vigo, tried to appease some of the apprehensions by emphasizing artificial intelligence’s potential to create jobs in the industry.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Remands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remands. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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