stockade
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Several of those provisions have long been considered nonstarters for Iran, which sees its missile stockade and regional alliances as central to national security.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023
Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2022
We stood shoulder to shoulder for some time; until, my eye being drawn by a motion in the far part of the stockade, I saw that there was activity at the gates.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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