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place of confinement

noun as in close quarters

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Later in the day, as footage of celebrating crowds emerged - after the new junta had lifted the internet shutdown imposed by Mr Bongo's regime on the eve of the polls and maintained the shutdown throughout an opaque vote "count" - the deposed head of state appeared in an online video sent from his place of confinement.

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Meanwhile, Novosti simply states that "Australia is terrible" while gleefully reporting on a band of Djokovic supporters who have been singing and dancing outside his place of confinement.

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A freshly installed gray carpet covers the wood floor and has the chemical reek of glue, which adds to the unsettling sense of the gallery as a holding cell or place of confinement.

He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor, construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible.

Passenger Jean-Pierre Escarras, from Marseilles, shot a video of their cabin that their daughters shared on social networks, in which he says: “This is our place of confinement. We are lucky to have a window.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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