incommunicado
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Suu Kyi remains massively popular inside Myanmar, but has been held almost completely incommunicado as her family warned of her ailing health.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Ray is incommunicado for a while after their first “date,” but finally he asks Colin to come over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
ICE held her incommunicado for 24 hours and then shuffled her through three states before jailing her in Louisiana.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2025
Earlier this year, Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and his Ugandan counterpart Agather Atuhaire were detained in Tanzania and held incommunicado for days before being abandoned at their respective national borders.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025
Since 1963, she has remained incommunicado, and according to sources, even her family is unaware of her whereabouts.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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