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Federal prosecutors, seeking to imprison Rinderknecht for up to 45 years, say they will call ATF experts to refute that fireworks, a cigarette or power lines started the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 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

“Pili, in your letter, you said you were with Leanna North. The real Ella St. Clay. Where is she? Where did the Shadow Queen imprison her?”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

Last night he suggested in his usual oleaginous way that mean people on Twitter are worse than a dictator who poisons and imprisons his political adversaries.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 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

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one’s spirit.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Jack Kerouac sought enlightenment there; his compatriot Neal Cassady was imprisoned there, in San Quentin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Not everyone we spoke to remained forever imprisoned by their so-called fans.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

They have been imprisoned at the Baker County Detention Center and denied bail ever since.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Lin’s great uncle was imprisoned during the regime of Kuomintang repression known as the White Terror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

I hurried back through the marketplace, past the man with the trained monkey on a chain and the stall where birds were imprisoned in tiny cages.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

Reacting to Sentencing Council's announcement, Janey Starling, co-director of feminist campaign group Level Up, said the changes are a "huge milestone" in the campaign to end imprisoning pregnant women and mothers.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author