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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

In plays such as “The Whale,” “Pocatello” and “A Permanent Image,” he closely examines the sociological landscape, the way economics and culture constrict and magnify, imprison and potentially liberate this thing we call the self.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

“Pili, in your letter, you said you were with Leanna North. The real Ella St. Clay. Where is she? Where did the Shadow Queen imprison her?”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

“The notoriety of this case imprisons Mr. Haggis, and he can only be free to work again when he wins at trial,” his attorney, Seth Zuckerman, says in the motion, according to Variety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Last night he suggested in his usual oleaginous way that mean people on Twitter are worse than a dictator who poisons and imprisons his political adversaries.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2022

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

A Home Office spokesman said Abdela was the 20th small boat pilot to be imprisoned in four months for endangering lives at sea.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Jack Kerouac sought enlightenment there; his compatriot Neal Cassady was imprisoned there, in San Quentin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Fleeing in horror from the Revolution he had hoped to lead, he was captured and imprisoned, “crushed,” as Gouverneur Morris, America’s minister to France, put it, “by the wheel he set in motion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Not everyone we spoke to remained forever imprisoned by their so-called fans.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

I’d make up stories about it: tales of a land that only existed in Bubbe’s attic, with a princess imprisoned in a tower and a monster standing guard outside the big bolted doors.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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