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Recent Examples of oubliette
One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
Noun
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From that point forward, the movie is dedicated to the week-long program that Isaiah cooks up for Cameron in his brutalist football dungeon, with each day growing more sinister than the last.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
18 Sep. 2025
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Byron carved his name into one of the dungeon walls.—
Thomas Page McBee,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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North Little Rock police officer Tommy Norman, whose social media presence attracted millions of followers before his Saturday arrest on a domestic battery count, was released from jail Monday morning after posting a $350 bond, court records showed.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Arcángela and Serafina remain in the women’s penitentiary, continuing to operate illicit businesses and accumulating wealth, but without hope of freedom.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Prisoners look out of their cell at maximum security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) on April 4 in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sanders, in a motion to the court, accused the initial prosecutor in the case, Tony Rackauckas, of manipulating evidence dealing with jailhouse informants.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Court records weren't immediately available in that case, but Luchin admitted to attempting to rob a bank in jailhouse interviews at the time.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2022
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Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.—
Yxta Maya Murray,
Longreads,
19 Aug. 2020
Noun
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For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.—
Robert Kolarik,
San Antonio Express-News,
23 Feb. 2018
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In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Smithsonian,
13 Mar. 2017
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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