remanded

verb

past tense of remand
as in detained

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  1. detained
  2. jailed
  3. incarcerated
  4. imprisoned
  5. confined
  6. arrested
  7. apprehended
  8. committed
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  • The indictment also describes an American detained in January 2025 who was beaten repeatedly over two days, suffering permanent damage to one eye.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Belgal remains detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
    — Nicole Alarcon, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of detained
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  • Davis anti-transgender activist and school board candidate Beth Bourne was briefly jailed on trespassing charges Tuesday after her arrest outside a Sonoma high school, the Sonoma newspaper reported.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Individuals can now be fined as much as $5 billion rupiah ($280,000) and jailed up to 15 years.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of jailed
Verb
  • In her experience, the criminal justice system doesn’t do nearly enough to rehabilitate the incarcerated and address the underlying issues, often based in trauma, that lead people to commit crimes.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The campaign brings together Fox and Johnson’s boundary-pushing styles and supports Fox’s nonprofit Rosebuds Reading Collective for women who are incarcerated.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of incarcerated
Verb
  • The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group that wants fewer people behind bars, reports that white women were imprisoned at a rate of 41 per 100,000 in 2023, while white men were imprisoned at 341 per 100,000, more than eight times as high.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The pity of the judge who imprisoned them here was cold comfort for a group of people who had little reason to trust any legal authority.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of imprisoned
Verb
  • Not one confined to a single house, summit, or handful of world leaders.
    — Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The district judge confined Biddy and most of the Black children in the county jail, ostensibly for their own protection from their unscrupulous enslaver.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of confined
Verb
  • Agents arrested four people, including the property owner, and arrested a fifth the next day, according to previous Statesman reporting.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Among the 105 people who were ultimately arrested, 75 are believed to have been deported to their home countries, according to local media, and 26 were released from ICE custody after their lawyers filed habeas corpus petitions.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrested
Verb
  • Durham was later apprehended and served time in prison for the crime, but not before selling the paintings to a notorious crime boss who was later found in possession of the art.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Two detainees held at Florida's Deportation Depot west of Jacksonville were released by mistake over the weekend and later apprehended and returned to the detention facility, officials have confirmed.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of apprehended
Verb
  • During her State of the Union address on 16th September, President von der Leyen committed to overhauling single market rules by the end of next year and advancing EU Inc to streamline cross-border expansion.
    — Sophie Dembinski, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs general manager Daniel Tarica said $15 million from its existing budget has been committed to its core program.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
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