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
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.
—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
After studying photography and interning for Attitude Magazine, Yardley naturally found his way into styling, first in the editorial space and then as an assistant for another celebrity stylist.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Falcon founded Lightning in 2019 after studying for a doctorate on deep learning at NYU and interning with Yann LeCun at Facebook.
—Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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
After studying photography and interning for Attitude Magazine, Yardley naturally found his way into styling, first in the editorial space and then as an assistant for another celebrity stylist.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Falcon founded Lightning in 2019 after studying for a doctorate on deep learning at NYU and interning with Yann LeCun at Facebook.
—Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interning
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The city has said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.—
Amethyst Martinez,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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The government shut off the internet, and the military and police cracked down, eventually extinguishing the protests and jailing more than 1,400.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, the Iranian regime’s very recent and brutal crackdown on its own people — imprisoning and killing thousands of citizens for dissent — has not been met with the same outrage by these voices.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Happily, there’s more to it than a simplistic feminist parable of a powerful man imprisoning his helpless wife in a monument to his genius and her domesticity.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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It’s made clear that the chief antagonist is Philip, who starts off by griping that Madeleine isn’t confining herself to her half of the suite.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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“Interning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interning. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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