incarceration
noun
the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure.
incarcerations
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pluralof incarceration.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He himself hadn’t known much about the incarcerations until he was studying at the Harvard Kennedy school in 1988, when President Reagan signed a historic law about reparations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Another option would be to allow a plea of “not guilty by reason of dementia” or to enact sentencing limits similar to those protecting juveniles from lifelong incarcerations.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
That’s an arrest rate for Yurok women roughly five times the rate of female incarcerations nationwide, said George, the University of California, Merced sociologist consulting with the tribe.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Street’s picaresque stunts, and occasional incarcerations, do not occur in a vacuum.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
Particulars were not given, as the first two incarcerations occurred under Forster and Trevelyan.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
