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Recent Examples of house arrest
Over the past 15 years, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, blindfolded, interrogated, and put under house arrest with a 20-year ban on making films.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Bolsonaro is under house arrest, surrounded by guards to prevent him from fleeing to a foreign embassy to request asylum.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Leni Riefenstahl, although briefly kept under house arrest by French occupation forces and tried four times by denazification courts, was never formally convicted of complicity in the crimes of the Nazis.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Conditions of pre-trial release can include unsecured bond, secured bond, supervision or house arrest.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Bolsonaro is under house arrest, surrounded by guards to prevent him from fleeing to a foreign embassy to request asylum.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Leni Riefenstahl, although briefly kept under house arrest by French occupation forces and tried four times by denazification courts, was never formally convicted of complicity in the crimes of the Nazis.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Conditions of pre-trial release can include unsecured bond, secured bond, supervision or house arrest.
—Avi Bajpai, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for house arrest
Noun
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The platform confirmed reports that Robinson had posted messages to a Discord chat two hours before being taken into custody.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Robinson remains in custody and is scheduled for a virtual court hearing later today.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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That led to additional arrests, all while ICE was opening additional immigrant detention sites in Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Louisiana, and Tennessee.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trump announced the capture of Kirk’s alleged killer on Fox News on Friday.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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With the help of resourceful Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), Bourne evades capture from the CIA — namely data analyst Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and Deputy Director Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) — while untangling his involvement in the deadly Operation Treadstone.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Sep. 2025
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“House arrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/house%20arrest. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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