oubliette

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Recent Examples of oubliette One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls. Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025 One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls. 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
  • The next look leaves the dungeon behind for a more wistful trip into some witchy woods.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 June 2025
  • Players delve into dungeons and collect loot and sell those items in their shop in order to obtain better gear.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Edward Burke to only two years in prison for a series of shakedowns.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Most recently, under a new law in Tennessee, local officials who vote to adopt sanctuary policies could face up to six years in prison.
    Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Anyone who assaults or attacks an ICE or Border Agent will do hard time in jail.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • Her father was a Wall Street trader currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail bid.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • He was freed on parole from the Terre Haute, Indiana, federal penitentiary on Nov. 30, 1948, after serving 32 months of his five-year prison sentence.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • However, he was sent back to the high-security prison in 1962 and stayed there until he was transferred to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Williams refuted the criticism from Gov. Landry who said the DA refused too many jailhouse charges against the recent inmate escapees and allowed cases to stall in Criminal District Court.
    Faith Abubey, ABC News, 21 May 2025
  • Diddy was allowed to shed his jailhouse attire for the trial and chose a blue sweater over a white button-down shirt for the first day of jury selection.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024

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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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