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detaining
noun as in confining
Strong matches
noun as in imprisonment
Strongest match
Weak matches
- capturing
- confining
- immuring
- imprisoning
- incarcerating
- locking up
- quarantining
Example Sentences
Shortly afterwards, plainclothes agents are seen forcibly detaining her and pushing her into a car.
China responded by detaining two Canadian citizens living in China on spying charges.
Access Now warns, however, that "detaining the staff of platforms that people use to exercise their rights to free expression and peaceful assembly, without demonstrable alignment with human rights principles, may result in over-censorship, and could further shrink civic spaces".
On Friday morning, Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement Israeli forces had “stormed” Kamal Adwan hospital and were detaining hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people inside.
If elected, he also promised a militarized campaign of deportation that would entail arresting and detaining millions of people in internment camps.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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