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gulags

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plural of gulag

as in jails

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No record of Gutierrez’s arrest appears in an online database maintained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees county jails, suggesting that he may have been booked in the LAPD’s detention facilities.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Unlike municipalities, Florida sheriffs offices and county jails were mandated to sign 287(g) agreements.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of jails

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The Israeli Supreme Court earlier this year ordered the government to resume sharing such lists and allowing the ICRC to visit detainees in Israeli prisons to assess their conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Flávio has promised to designate major criminal factions as terrorist groups, expand prisons and lower the age of criminal responsibility.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of prisons

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By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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Companies, remembering the worker shortages that followed the end of COVID-19 lockups, are still reluctant to let go of staff.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
The mechanics of that phase, lockups, secondary markets, continuation funds, and the pressure venture firms are under to finally return capital to their own investors, are becoming just as important to understand as the IPOs themselves.

— Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lockups

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In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

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Some 104,643 defective pens were returned in the first 8 months of sales.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Rug Island — named after a season two episode where the characters use their imagination to create an island from a rug, throw cushions and colored pens — comes on a green and orange LP.

— Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026

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