gulag

noun

Definition of gulagnext
as in prison

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Recent Examples of gulag The roots of Soviet and post-Soviet homophobia lie not in religion, but in the legacy of the Soviet gulag—where being homosexual was considered the worst thing that could befall a man. — Mikhail Zygar, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026 The cast fragmented, with the Byers family and El trying to start over in California while Hopper languished in a tonally dissonant Soviet gulag, as though the Duffers didn’t realize that what people loved most about Stranger Things was its grounding in Hawkins. — Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025 Stalin sent millions to the gulags, where many of them died from disease. — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 26 Dec. 2025 Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died. — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gulag
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
  1. prison
  2. penitentiary
  3. jail
  4. stalag
  5. jailhouse
  6. stockade
  7. prison camp
  8. lockup
Noun
  • The jury did convict Rosado of driving under the influence and he was sentenced to five years in prison, but Rosado has been behind bars on a $2 million bail since 2021 so won't have to serve any additional time.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Over the course of Exile, one of Loktev’s subjects is poisoned; another receives a five-year prison sentence in absentia.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of prison
Noun
  • Beginning in 1908, after federal prisons opened in Atlanta, Georgia, and Leavenworth, Kansas, most federal prisoners were sent to these new federal prisons, and cells began to empty at the West Virginia state penitentiary.
    — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Recent spike in inmate deaths at the penitentiary In fiscal year 2025 – July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025 – the DOC reported 19 deaths within its annual report, the most in a decade.
    — TJ Rhodes, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of penitentiary
Noun
  • He was given an option to bypass jail by paying a $250 fine and providing the filings within a week.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Castro was released from a Texas jail last week after a judge declined to order his return to Minnesota.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
  • To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.
    — ROBERT D. McFADDEN, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Definition of stalag
Noun
  • Remember those jailhouse informants who claimed Kezer had confessed?
    — Peter Henderson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Wright was cited in July by Davis in a jailhouse interview as a possible person who actually orchestrated Shakur’s killing.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of jailhouse
Noun
  • At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of stockade
Noun
  • Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence in a Texas federal prison camp, had argued she was selectively prosecuted as a scapegoat, but the judge dismissed those claims as frivolous.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Maxwell is serving out her sentence at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was transferred last summer from a much less comfortable maximum security prison in Florida.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of prison camp
Noun
  • Mangione remains in pretrial lockup at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
    — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The New Jersey lockup where Agnello is incarcerated has housed some notable inmates over the years.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of lockup

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