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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

To be clear, Marchan has already stated that he does not intend to imprison the president-elect.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

It would be for her a well-spring from which she would draw the most destructive emotions, deceiving the lover and seeking to imprison the beloved, curtailing freedom in every way.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

Here is the real thing, where video liberates rather than imprisons all-enveloping music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

The cemetery is an oasis of peace amid the traffic that imprisons the Ostiense area.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

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

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one’s spirit.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The overlapping effective altruism movement, a network of wealthy do-gooders whose most infamous adherent is imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried, also adopted the cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

He flipped to the very front of the book and pointed to the picture of his teenage grandfather creeping through a dungeon to free an imprisoned woman and a very annoyed-looking goose.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

The demonstration was a protest against the policy of internment – imprisoning people without trial – which had been put in place following three years of violence.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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

“When we lock things away,” he said with conviction, “we’re really imprisoning ourselves.”

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman