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parole

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


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Under his plea deal with US authorities, Zambada faced a mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment without parole on a racketeering charge.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

He added that any future decision over whether Manners is released will be for the parole board to make.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

"She referred to them being in prison, on parole when playing and Morgan was the prison warden."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Ventura was the only defendant not facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is astounding.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

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

From Slate Oct. 18, 2024

District Judge T. Kent Wetherell issued a “show cause order” giving the administration until the afternoon to explain what happened and, if true, to argue how the paroles didn’t violate his restraining order.

From Washington Times May 15, 2023

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

Enough had reached my ears to convince me that others would be granted paroles in order to tempt them to take the oath, and I did not care to be caught in such company.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson

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

Both brothers were made eligible for paroled release after they were resentenced by a judge in May.

From BBC Aug. 21, 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

The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.

From Washington Times Apr. 29, 2020

“State paroling systems vary so much that it is almost impossible to compare them,” Jorge Renaud, an analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, a think tank, wrote in a report earlier this year.

From The New Yorker Nov. 25, 2019

Page 511, line 20, read "parallel" for "paroling."

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus




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