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About 7 out each 1,000 Americans is incarcerated.incarcerated = in prison or jail
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The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world.incarceration = placing someone in prison
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By then, it cost California about $50,000 a year to incarcerate a prisoner in a state prison.incarcerate = confine in prison
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He was obviously incarcerated for a reason. (source)incarcerated = put in prison
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Papaw spoke with the police officer about where to find his incarcerated daughter. (source)incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
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...and then it's not just about names but about race and class and mass incarceration, (source)incarceration = imprisonment
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These incarcerated men, before they'd even reached a point of basic maturity, had flagrantly—and tragically—squandered the few opportunities they'd had to contribute productively to something greater than themselves. (source)incarcerated = imprisoned
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Not content with the toll exacted by means of incarceration and forced labor in inhospitable climes, the supreme authorities sought to efface the Enemies of the People. (source)incarceration = imprisonmentstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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That gets thrown around a lot in terms of whether we incarcerate terrorists, tap communications, what were allowed to do with our sexual organs.† (source)incarcerate = imprison (put in prison)
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In essence, these nets stayed in our wake for several hours, incarcerating an entire aquatic world in prisons made of thread.† (source)incarcerating = imprisoning (putting in prison)
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A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world.† (source)incarcerations = putting people in prison
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When she was first incarcerated, they hadn't allowed her to bring her knapsack into the cell but let her take some of its contents with her in a brown paper bag. (source)incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
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The beast's scales had turned pale and flaky during its long incarceration under the ground, its eyes were milkily pink; both rear legs bore heavy cuffs from which chains led to enormous pegs driven deep into the rocky floor. (source)incarceration = captivity (or imprisonment)
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SOON WE WERE AT the green gates of the prison everyone called Kerchele, a corruption of the Italian word carcere, or incarcerate.† (source)incarcerate = imprison (put in prison)
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The collateral consequences of incarcerating women are significant. (source)incarcerating = imprisoning (putting in prison)
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The leggy woman begins reciting Cedric's criminal history and various incarcerations, highlights from the forearm-thick folder, or "jacket," on inmate 158706.† (source)incarcerations = putting people in prison
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