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  • He was obviously incarcerated for a reason.  (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
  • Papaw spoke with the police officer about where to find his incarcerated daughter.  (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
  • ...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
  • 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 = imprisonment
    standard 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The collateral consequences of incarcerating women are significant.  (source)
    incarcerating = imprisoning (putting in prison)
  • 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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