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internment
noun as in captivity
noun as in confinement
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noun as in detention
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The demonstration was a protest against the policy of internment – imprisoning people without trial – which had been put in place following three years of violence.
On the home front, Romer shows how Ruth barnstormed Central California in 1927, a decade and a half before the U.S. government forced citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps there.
We have a history of shadows: Japanese internment orders were once signed here, ICE raids now resume here.
"And the Everglades internment camp even more so," he said.
They are building facilities across the country that can only be described as internment camps.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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