commissary
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Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
When a man from the commissary ran in with an order to evacuate the building, Blaschum went upstairs to find her flying partners.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“The doctor told the him ... to buy different shoes from commissary to accommodate his foot condition.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
That day was the commissary run for R-gallery, and the inmates right above her office put their faces to the chain-link fence and started yelling at her.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
Pennsylvania’s contract for $50 million with GTL includes a 22.5 percent kickback from the sale of music, e-messaging, games, e-books, and deposits into people’s prison bank accounts—called commissaries.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024
Per the WSJ video, the commissaries have already started working with Warabeya, a supplier to 7-Eleven Japan.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
Since launching in Pico-Union, CloudKitchens has expanded rapidly, opening ghost-kitchen commissaries in Koreatown, Long Beach, Anaheim and downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2020
They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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