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parole

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


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Luster, 62, was released to parole supervision on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Pike's legal team, meanwhile, are calling on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute her punishment to the lesser sentence of life in prison without parole.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A BBC Eye undercover investigation revealed he was secretly released on parole in August 2025, after serving less than half his sentence.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The judge accepted Ian's plea and then sentenced him to life with no parole.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The revocation, she ruled, would have to be on a case-by-case basis, just as their paroles had been granted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024

CBP officials said they considered the paroles completed before the order, even though the releases were not.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023

It was Billy Speaker himself who had suggested the idea of the paroles, and as Jimmie Welsh knew the 219 word of a Westerner was as good as his bond, the pact was soon consummated.

From The Free Range by Douglas Duer

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

She was reported to fill her time with needlepoint and bookkeeping duties, and was paroled in 2007 at the age of 77 from a low-security federal facility for women in Dublin, east of San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025

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

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

Advocates and community members have long agreed that D.C. needs a new paroling authority.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 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

On the same day the Raleigh and the Baltimore secured the surrender of the batteries on Corregidor Island, paroling the garrison and destroying the guns.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris


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