as in jailing
to put in or as if in prison
some Polish citizens were interned in Russian camps during World War II
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Recent Examples of interning
Simmons, a native of Buffalo, New York, got his start interning for Ani DiFranco, whose Righteous Babe Records was based in town.
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Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
2 July 2026
Pruitt also ran varsity cross-country and track and spent last summer interning for the Henry County Water Authority, tapping into his passion for clean water and the environment.
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Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
Those formative years interning at the DA’s office sent her on a journey into Big Law, then multimillion-dollar legal entrepreneurship.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
Arellano joined the brand after interning and working his way into a full-time role, learning production before moving into design.
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J.m. Banks
march 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2026
Cohen got an early jump on his entertainment career while interning for Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch’s Film Rights during high school.
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Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
The fifth and sixth installments are loosely connected to this seventh film by the presence of the unusually tenacious twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown), who are inexplicably interning for Sidney’s longtime frenemy, journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).
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Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
The fifth and sixth installments are loosely connected to this seventh film by the presence of the unusually tenacious twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown), who are inexplicably interning for Sidney’s longtime frenemy, journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).
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Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
Simons also spent her summer interning with the E!
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
2 July 2026
Pruitt also ran varsity cross-country and track and spent last summer interning for the Henry County Water Authority, tapping into his passion for clean water and the environment.
—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
Those formative years interning at the DA’s office sent her on a journey into Big Law, then multimillion-dollar legal entrepreneurship.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
Arellano joined the brand after interning and working his way into a full-time role, learning production before moving into design.
—
J.m. Banks
march 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2026
Cohen got an early jump on his entertainment career while interning for Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch’s Film Rights during high school.
—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2026
The fifth and sixth installments are loosely connected to this seventh film by the presence of the unusually tenacious twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown), who are inexplicably interning for Sidney’s longtime frenemy, journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).
—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
The fifth and sixth installments are loosely connected to this seventh film by the presence of the unusually tenacious twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown), who are inexplicably interning for Sidney’s longtime frenemy, journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox).
—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
Simons also spent her summer interning with the E!
—
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interning
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Some chants from the crowd called for jailing the officer who killed Love.
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Some compared him to El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele, who is widely popular throughout Latin America for jailing alleged gang members with no due process.
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The turn of events prompt the narrator to re-examine his life as a gay Latine son of immigrants whose hometown is now imprisoning people like him.
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Trump, in one of his Truth Social posts, cited laws against defacing monuments as grounds for imprisoning anyone harming the pool.
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Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.
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In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
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Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges.
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The requirement to add wheels increases costs and can limit where these homes are allowed, due to zoning restrictions, often confining them to mobile home parks.
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“Interning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interning. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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