confinement
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Now that he was out of solitary confinement, Havens’ interest in gang politics had disappeared.
From Slate • May 2, 2026
During her earlier confinement, Aung San Suu Kyi's dignified, non-violent resistance won her admirers across Myanmar and around the world, and she famously made speeches to supporters from her family home.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Binderbauer says he sees a pathway to adequate energy confinement and is confident in TAE’s technology and experience building complex machines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
His marriage to Mr. Lemann’s mother survived a “great crisis” spurred by her confinement to a psychiatric institute and an affair with one of the doctors there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
I looked at that manse, now a bedding-place for the Parliamentary Army, its interiors unknown to me after a life of confinement there.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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