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internment

[in-turn-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜrn mənt /




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In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2026

Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

Repatriated to Amsterdam, Elfriede - who was known as Fritzi - married Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, who had also managed to survive internment by the Nazis.

From BBC Jan. 4, 2026

The use of this ancient wartime power, which was only used three times before, and grievously abused in the case of the Japanese and Italian American internment, is an attack on common sense.

From Salon May 2, 2025

I push aside my plate of internment slop and tear open the fruit cup.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

People are more familiar with the incarceration of Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens, but we still do remember the Alien Enemies Act internments as a shameful part of our history.

From Slate Mar. 20, 2025

"The section that will be used is occupied by the dead from a century ago and will not affect any recent internments," FWC said.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2024

Jay Tidmarsh, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, suggested the World War II internments as a possible comparable framework.

From Washington Times Nov. 10, 2021

In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims.

From Washington Post Sep. 8, 2021

The populace has not molested alien enemies, and their government has not indulged in wholesale internments of enemies’ subjects.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher




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