internment
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Third, the military collapse of the caliphate 10 years ago didn’t result only in its territorial disappearance; it also led to the internment of several thousand jihadists fanatical to the point of madness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 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
I’m not sure I knew internment had happened, or understood its scale, before I reached adulthood.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
Today, under the law of war, civilians are supposed to have protections, including against citizenship- or identity-based detentions or internment, as well as against forced repatriation.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025
After ten short minutes the buses pass Manzanar, the old Japanese American internment camp.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
