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parole

[puh-rohl] / pəˈroʊl /
VERB
discharge
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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But the family entered the country under humanitarian parole, which allows them to remain for one year, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Luster, 62, was released to parole supervision on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

That review found "errors" resulting in Bechi's parole being revoked.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A BBC Eye undercover investigation revealed he was secretly released on parole in August 2025, after serving less than half his sentence.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency announced on X. Again, it was unclear specifically who this applied to and if these individuals were notified.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2025

Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

While the governor decides who is granted a pardon, he does not control paroles.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

SIR,—I have to trouble you with the following paroles bien senties.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

The sentence was later reduced to eight years, and Bakker was paroled after serving just five.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Vivian, who earlier had told Maya-Jade that she felt as if she’d been paroled from prison.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Before I got to fire camp, my earliest possible release date was November 2013, yet I ended up paroling in February 2012.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

The work of paroling the prisoners goes on as fast as possible.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones


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