as in arrested
taken and held prisoner
the jailed protestors were noisily demanding to see their lawyers
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as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jailed
Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
For example, Yasser Abu Shabab, the now-deceased head of one of the gangs, reportedly escaped prison, where he was jailed for drug smuggling.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 13 Feb. 2026
The president had recently called for Pritzker to be jailed—a status symbol among high-profile Democratic governors who might run for president.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Advertisement But pro-democracy figures have argued that local governance has grown increasingly aligned with the mainland as political dissidents have either been jailed or exiled, organizations have disbanded, and a free press dismantled.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
Gezi gave way to crackdowns and an administrative witch hunt that saw thousands of academics, judges, journalists, lawyers, and civil servants jailed.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
He was jailed on charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
Those colleagues were jailed too, receiving sentences ranging from 6 years, 9 months to 10 years behind bars.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Authorities have since jailed dozens of dissidents, and shuttered various civil society groups and media outlets; Lai himself was arrested five years ago, and convicted in December.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
He was jailed in January 2021 and moved to an Arctic penal colony in late 2023.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
For example, Yasser Abu Shabab, the now-deceased head of one of the gangs, reportedly escaped prison, where he was jailed for drug smuggling.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 13 Feb. 2026
The president had recently called for Pritzker to be jailed—a status symbol among high-profile Democratic governors who might run for president.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Advertisement But pro-democracy figures have argued that local governance has grown increasingly aligned with the mainland as political dissidents have either been jailed or exiled, organizations have disbanded, and a free press dismantled.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
Gezi gave way to crackdowns and an administrative witch hunt that saw thousands of academics, judges, journalists, lawyers, and civil servants jailed.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
He was jailed on charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
Those colleagues were jailed too, receiving sentences ranging from 6 years, 9 months to 10 years behind bars.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Authorities have since jailed dozens of dissidents, and shuttered various civil society groups and media outlets; Lai himself was arrested five years ago, and convicted in December.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailed
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Mohammadi suffered multiple heart attacks while imprisoned before undergoing emergency surgery in 2022, her supporters say.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Bankman-Fried was later imprisoned for fraud, and Anthropic’s leadership began to pretend that effective altruism did not exist.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Dead Man’s Wire demonstrates the ultimate powerlessness of both captor and captive.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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Noa Marciano while she was held captive in Gaza has been eliminated, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Wednesday.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
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But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.—
Frances Stead Sellers,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Jelly Roll was pardoned by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee last December for his past convictions, including robbery and drug felonies for which he was incarcerated at ages 16 and 23, respectively.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
13 Feb. 2026
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Elizabeth Hinton, a professor of history and law at Yale, said the 2005 cutoff disproportionately affects incarcerated young people who are Black.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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