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gulags

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plural of gulag

as in jails

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In 2019, the New York City Council voted to close the island's facilities and replace them with four smaller jails throughout the five boroughs by August 2027.

— Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 8 Oct. 2026
Reports also describe people in prisons and jails around the country being routinely beaten, among other abuse.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of jails

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Fewer than half of the 170,000 inmates released from California prisons between 2015 and 2019 found jobs, and many of those jobs were temporary, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

— Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
For several years, people in custody, advocates and local media have sounded the alarm about the dangers posed by extreme temperatures in Pennsylvania’s state prisons.

— Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of prisons

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By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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Companies, remembering the worker shortages that followed the end of COVID-19 lockups, are still reluctant to let go of staff.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
The mechanics of that phase, lockups, secondary markets, continuation funds, and the pressure venture firms are under to finally return capital to their own investors, are becoming just as important to understand as the IPOs themselves.

— Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lockups

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In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

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The objects’ sculptural cages add another layer to the work, connecting them to ideas of protection and exclusion.

— Jade Wilson, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Experts told the Herald that the use of such cages as punishment could violate international laws against torture and degrading treatment.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

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