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imprisoning
noun as in confining
Strong matches
noun as in imprisonment
Strongest match
Weak matches
- capturing
- confining
- detaining
- immuring
- incarcerating
- locking up
- quarantining
Example Sentences
We can all keep wondering unless the Trump administration offers such deportees due process so that the legal system can vet their identities and the reasons for seizing and imprisoning them.
"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.
Before imprisoning people, including noncitizens, the government is required under the Constitution to charge the defendants with a crime and to prove their guilt in a jury trial, he said.
So I kept at it, asking, "How can JD Vance say he is a good Catholic, when he defends imprisoning people without due process?"
Trump said Bukele was doing a "fantastic job" at imprisoning some "very bad people... that should never have been allowed into our country".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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