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Recent Examples of gulag
The most notorious gulag lies in the barren, rocky hills outside the capital, Damascus.
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Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
The government had detained tens of thousands — some estimates say well over 100,000 — of people in what rights groups have called gulag-like conditions.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Bones is a supernatural thriller set in Siberia along the Kolyma Highway, a real highway that was built in Stalinist Soviet Union using the labor of prisoners from the region’s gulags.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
The government had detained tens of thousands — some estimates say well over 100,000 — of people in what rights groups have called gulag-like conditions.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Bones is a supernatural thriller set in Siberia along the Kolyma Highway, a real highway that was built in Stalinist Soviet Union using the labor of prisoners from the region’s gulags.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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The first penitentiaries weren’t built until the late 1700s, so more extreme sentences were deemed necessary to prevent discord.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
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At the time of the crime, Hoffman was 18 and has since spent much of his adult life at the penitentiary in rural southeast Louisiana, where he was executed Tuesday evening.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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However, on March 27, a paperwork error allowed Guzman to walk out of the Clayton County jail a free man.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the photo, Sada is dressed in an orange jail uniform while his expression consists of wide eyes and a stiff grin.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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See footage of Keefe D’s jailhouse interview below.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Colby also frequently discusses his mother’s case on his YouTube channel, including sharing his reaction to his testimony and their jailhouse phone call.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.—
Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News,
Fox News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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As the earliest investors reach the end of their lockup periods, some will look to cash out their stakes, putting further selling pressure on the stock, which is still up 200% since the IPO.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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Even after a lockup expired, Trump sold zero shares, perhaps concerned that doing so would tank the stock price and erase billions from his net worth.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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