gulag

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Recent Examples of gulag In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025 That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025 But no serious groundswell of opposition was recorded, even as his main opponent was killed off in a gulag. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025 As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gulag
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Noun
  • In exchange, officials agreed to a sentence of 33-60 years in prison for the murder charge plus an additional two years of incarceration for the weapons charge, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release.
    Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
  • Brendan Doyle, who was also convicted of identity theft and robbery, was sentenced last year to 28 years and eight months to life in prison.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • But local officials and historians have questioned the practical and symbolic implications of converting the island back into a penitentiary.
    Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
  • Her various occupations, paid and unpaid, included teaching convicts at an area penitentiary and substitute-teaching in junior high.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Ghaly pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and was sentenced in November to 230 days in jail, plus probation.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
  • The American-Statesman and KVUE-TV recently discovered dozens of instances in which felony defendants stayed in jail well beyond 90 days without an indictment.
    Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
  • Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Noun
  • The two returned to court in front of Judge Dawn Nichols at the Volusia County Courthouse at 10 a.m. with Hunter in the courtroom and Victorino present from a jailhouse feed.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
  • Nationwide, there have been 256 exonerations tied to the use of jailhouse informants, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • However, these investors are bound by 180 day lockup agreements which prevent them from selling the stock until next January, CNBC reported.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Prosecutors also said conditions at the federal lockup had improved considerably before Combs was arrested.
    Larry Neumeister, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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