as in imprisoning
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 jailing
Some chants from the crowd called for jailing the officer who killed Love.
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Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
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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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
The city has said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.
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Amethyst Martinez,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
The government shut off the internet, and the military and police cracked down, eventually extinguishing the protests and jailing more than 1,400.
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Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Diversion program 8 years old California’s mental health diversion program was enacted in 2018 under the argument that jailing the mentally ill only makes their condition worse and does not prevent them from committing more crimes upon their release.
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Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
No such rules appear to exist for Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have been accused of arbitrarily arresting, jailing and torturing people who speak out against the government.
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Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
While First Amendment protections for speech and press freedom have kept the federal government from prosecuting journalists with frequency, there is a long history of jailing journalists on contempt charges for refusing to name their anonymous sources.
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Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
6 Apr. 2026
Another investigation was initiated the following year by the commission after Givens was accused of presiding over two criminal cases after she’d been recused, jailing a man in one case and revoking bond from another.
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Jane Harper,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
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.
—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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
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
Diversion program 8 years old California’s mental health diversion program was enacted in 2018 under the argument that jailing the mentally ill only makes their condition worse and does not prevent them from committing more crimes upon their release.
—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
No such rules appear to exist for Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have been accused of arbitrarily arresting, jailing and torturing people who speak out against the government.
—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
While First Amendment protections for speech and press freedom have kept the federal government from prosecuting journalists with frequency, there is a long history of jailing journalists on contempt charges for refusing to name their anonymous sources.
—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
6 Apr. 2026
Another investigation was initiated the following year by the commission after Givens was accused of presiding over two criminal cases after she’d been recused, jailing a man in one case and revoking bond from another.
—
Jane Harper,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailing
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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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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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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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“Jailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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