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In the same exchange, Chopra took the conversation to a different level, writing: “Atoms galaxies mind body are hallucinations that imprison humanity. We have to get rid of 2000 years of human conditioning.”

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

I patiently explained that neither law clerks nor justices get to imprison people sua sponte.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mitsotakis, who notes the fraud began before he came to power in 2019, has vowed to imprison the "thieves" responsible and to reclaim the funds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

In America, we don’t imprison people for violating rules that were never written.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Pentheus ordered his guards to seize and imprison the visitors, especially the leader, “whose face is flushed with wine, a cheating sorcerer from Lydia.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The camera is almost always static; the frame is frozen in a way that virtually imprisons the characters, suggesting that their blinkered belief systems similarly constrain their thoughts and direct their deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Filmed in a boxy aspect ratio that visually imprisons her in her circumstances, the movie uses tracking shots as hints into its character’s mindset.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

Mommy Fortuna, a wizened witch voiced by the late Angela Lansbury, cages the creature in a sideshow attraction to make a buck and secure her legacy in the memory of the deathless creatures she imprisons.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022

Exiled back to Earth, Monkey and his armies battle the forces of Heaven successfully until the Buddha finally imprisons him under a mountain.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021

Daddy imprisons himself in his room, but what else is new?

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

"Right through the ages... those who're righteous, they've always been attacked, abused, accused, killed, imprisoned -- and this is the way it is," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

A Home Office spokesman said Abdela was the 20th small boat pilot to be imprisoned in four months for endangering lives at sea.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

She was released about a week later, after the group negotiated with the Iraqi government for the release of imprisoned militants, current and former U.S. officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Weinstein, imprisoned and suffering from declining health, sought relief in both California and New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Paul was willing—even eager—to share the well-publicized indignities suffered by the suffragists who had been imprisoned.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Buddha steps in, imprisoning Monkey under a mountain and forcing him to study sutras for 500 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Retired tech titans and social media luminaries can no more control the development of AI by banning it than the Catholic Church could undo the fact that Earth revolves around the sun by imprisoning Galileo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

"Excuse me, that's incorrect. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people," Hassan said.

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

The US and many countries in Europe have repatriated citizens from Syrian detention camps before putting them on trial and imprisoning them.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025

Now, there are no laws against imprisoning apostrophes and making them look daft.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author