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imprison

[im-priz-uhn] / ɪmˈprɪz ən /


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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

“It’s despicable to imprison a person for exercising their 1st Amendment rights,” McBroom said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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

It was too risky to imprison Booth anywhere on land.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

Filmed in a boxy aspect ratio that visually imprisons her in her circumstances, the movie uses tracking shots as hints into its character’s mindset.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

Mommy Fortuna, a wizened witch voiced by the late Angela Lansbury, cages the creature in a sideshow attraction to make a buck and secure her legacy in the memory of the deathless creatures she imprisons.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

Daddy imprisons himself in his room, but what else is new?

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

"Right through the ages... those who're righteous, they've always been attacked, abused, accused, killed, imprisoned -- and this is the way it is," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Weinstein, imprisoned and suffering from declining health, sought relief in both California and New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Around that time, an office prankster briefly erected a life-size cardboard cutout of imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried—a joke partly about how similar Coplan, a fellow crypto billionaire, is in appearance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Second, that caused America to enter World War II. And third, more than 110,000 Nikkei—mostly American citizens—living on the West Coast had been imprisoned in ten different places, for no good reason.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

Reacting to Sentencing Council's announcement, Janey Starling, co-director of feminist campaign group Level Up, said the changes are a "huge milestone" in the campaign to end imprisoning pregnant women and mothers.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

“When we lock things away,” he said with conviction, “we’re really imprisoning ourselves.”

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman


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