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It can hold up to 135 long-term and short-term men who need to be separated from mainstream prisoners because of the nature of their offence - termed "offence-related protection prisoners".

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Prosecutors had asked for a stiff sentence for what they termed a “massive fraud” that involved hundreds of thousands of victims.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

One commentator termed this stock melt-up the “bliss trade.”

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

A secret visit by national security adviser Henry Kissinger the year before laid the groundwork for the presidential trip, alongside reciprocal visits of table tennis teams termed "ping-pong diplomacy".

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The generation of an RNA copy of a gene was termed transcription—referring to the rewriting of a word or sentence in a language close to the original.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee