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gulag

noun

Definition of gulag

as in prison

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Recent Examples of gulag During that period, more than one million Kazakhs died in famine, while roughly two million people were imprisoned or deported to gulags on politically motivated charges. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026 The roots of Soviet and post-Soviet homophobia lie not in religion, but in the legacy of the Soviet gulag—where being homosexual was considered the worst thing that could befall a man. — Mikhail Zygar, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026 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 The cast fragmented, with the Byers family and El trying to start over in California while Hopper languished in a tonally dissonant Soviet gulag, as though the Duffers didn’t realize that what people loved most about Stranger Things was its grounding in Hawkins. — Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gulag

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Noun

The pair, who were detained in March, had already spent four months in prison prior to the punishment, which ultimately reduced their sentence from 25 lashes to 21, the AP said.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Taylor, 30, now faces a potential sentence of life in prison.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

Definition of prison

Noun

Two years ago, a judge freed Anthony Bailey after 27 years in the federal penitentiary, giving him a second chance at life.

— Carrie Johnson, NPR, 23 June 2026
After a federal jury voted to convict him in early 2024, Hernández was sent to a notorious high-security penitentiary in West Virginia to serve his time.

— Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 11 June 2026

Definition of penitentiary

Noun

The driver of the fleeing vehicle was booked into the Wyandotte County Detention Center, according to the jail’s inmate listing.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
Epstein served about 13 months in a Florida jail, and was often permitted to leave the jail on work release.

— Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 3 July 2026

Definition of jail

Noun

In addition, investigators working for Duncan’s legal team interviewed a jailhouse informant who recanted his earlier trial testimony that Duncan had confessed to the crime.

— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 29 June 2026
Watkins told me in our jailhouse interview in 2018 that Cherica Adams was actually the fifth person he had been hired to kill.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2026

Definition of jailhouse

Noun

At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.

— Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026

Definition of stockade

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Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2026

Definition of prison camp

Noun

While index inclusion will put upward pressure on the stock, expiring lockups over the coming weeks and months will likely add downward pressure as insiders unload shares.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 July 2026
SpaceX, however, took the flexible lockup approach, wrapped it in a puzzle, strapped it to an enigma, and sent it to live in a colony on Mars.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 3 July 2026

Definition of lockup

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