Example Sentences
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Brazil's right-wing Liberal Party on Saturday formally nominated Flavio Bolsonaro, a 45-year-old senator and son of imprisoned ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, as its candidate in the October presidential election.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mr. Clifford is a former business associate of imprisoned newsman Jimmy Lai and author of a Lai biography, “The Troublemaker.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Fifteen of the new lawmakers are women and 13 were imprisoned during the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
What started as a way to avoid paying bus fares for 6-year-old Narbé became the way to fool guards at prison, where only the small children were allowed to physically touch their imprisoned loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
In 1963 alone, another fifteen thousand were imprisoned, and one thousand desegregation protests occurred across the region, in more than one hundred cities.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
