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parole

[puh-rohl] / pəˈroʊl /
VERB
discharge
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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But the family entered the country under humanitarian parole, which allows them to remain for one year, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The decision was subsequently reversed by a majority of parole board commissioners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

At the time of the incident, Fairchild was incarcerated after being arrested Sept. 12, 2024, for violating his parole on a 2022 criminal threat conviction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Pike's lawyers have called on the governor to downgrade Pike's punishment to life in prison without parole.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I am guilty, Anne. They won’t give me a parole this time. But as soon as the rebels are driven out, I shall return.”

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency announced on X. Again, it was unclear specifically who this applied to and if these individuals were notified.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2025

Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

For those sentenced to life, discretionary paroles are available only to those who committed their crime before Dec. 31, 1999, — before Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing law took effect and ended the possibility of parole.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

On the arrival of General Carleton, which was a few days after, both were liberated on their paroles, so that Mr Livingston can give us no intelligence of any kind.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Jared Sparks

One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

Her attorneys noted that DHS determined she was not a flight risk when she was paroled into the country and that her detention was unjustified.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Before I got to fire camp, my earliest possible release date was November 2013, yet I ended up paroling in February 2012.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

The Baltimore Sun on the involvement of the governor of Maryland in paroling three juveniles who were given life sentences:

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018

"This is Lieutenant Alburgh of your navy, Mr. Passford; and he has been very attentive to us," interposed the surgeon, introducing the paroling officer.

From A Victorious Union by Oliver Optic


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