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In the same exchange, Chopra took the conversation to a different level, writing: “Atoms galaxies mind body are hallucinations that imprison humanity. We have to get rid of 2000 years of human conditioning.”

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

I patiently explained that neither law clerks nor justices get to imprison people sua sponte.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mitsotakis, who notes the fraud began before he came to power in 2019, has vowed to imprison the "thieves" responsible and to reclaim the funds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

In America, we don’t imprison people for violating rules that were never written.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Pentheus ordered his guards to seize and imprison the visitors, especially the leader, “whose face is flushed with wine, a cheating sorcerer from Lydia.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The camera is almost always static; the frame is frozen in a way that virtually imprisons the characters, suggesting that their blinkered belief systems similarly constrain their thoughts and direct their deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

How does this good woman merit a disease that imprisons you in your own body?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Evasive and everywhere, the past imprisons Olivia as good old Gothic stories tend to wrap their tentacles around and ensnare us.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022

Exiled back to Earth, Monkey and his armies battle the forces of Heaven successfully until the Buddha finally imprisons him under a mountain.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

Daddy imprisons himself in his room, but what else is new?

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Fifteen of the new lawmakers are women and 13 were imprisoned during the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown in 2024.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

She hangs out with Aztec warriors, occupies the shells of old pay phones and even breaks the chains that imprisoned immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

But in Matthew 25, words in plain language, attributed explicitly to Jesus, tell us we will be judged by how we have treated the hungry, the sick, the stranger and the imprisoned.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026

In the decade preceding Xi, he noted, there was perhaps one such case—and even then, the official wasn’t imprisoned, but was merely stripped of privileges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

A few of the old mansions remained, but they were deserted and decaying; some were completely imprisoned in vines.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Buddha steps in, imprisoning Monkey under a mountain and forcing him to study sutras for 500 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Retired tech titans and social media luminaries can no more control the development of AI by banning it than the Catholic Church could undo the fact that Earth revolves around the sun by imprisoning Galileo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

"Excuse me, that's incorrect. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people," Hassan said.

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

A member of the audience at the Fabian Society event urged Lord Timpson to consider community sentences as a “direct alternative” to imprisoning offenders.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024

The badger then upended the basket, imprisoning the maddened sparrow beneath it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques