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Recent Examples of stalag
To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.
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Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
—Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
—Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalag
Noun
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Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The story would feature voluminous evidence, including Salvadoran intelligence reports, government documents and even prison logs recording the visits of Luna and other Bukele aides to MS-13 leaders.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Both Menendez brothers remain in prison after having been denied parole in August of this year, and, in September, a judge denied their petition for a new trial.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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In 2005, the penitentiary was downgraded to medium security, and its name changed to the Federal Correctional Institution.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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That included branding civil rights advocacy and speech defamatory, a breach of the peace, or hate speech, and hauling activists into courts and jails.—
Time,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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He is being held without bail at the El Dorado County jail, records show.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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In one guardroom, among the mess on the floor, is an orange locker door ripped from its hinges and taped with a poster of Mr. Assad.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2025
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Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2022
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Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.—
Yxta Maya Murray,
Longreads,
19 Aug. 2020
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Sanders had uncovered in 2014 that Rackauckas’ prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies for years had illegally used jailhouse informants to coax confessions from defendants who had attorneys, in violation of their right to counsel.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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Court records weren't immediately available in that case, but Luchin admitted to attempting to rob a bank in jailhouse interviews at the time.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Stalag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalag. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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