as in arrested
taken and held prisoner
the jailed protestors were noisily demanding to see their lawyers
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as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jailed
Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Chavez was jailed for two years, but emerged as the leading presidential candidate in 1998 on a socialist revolutionary platform.
—James Trapani, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
But things change when her father is jailed.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
The only images of the pair were from outside the courthouse after being ferried by helicopter from Brooklyn, where they were jailed, to Manhattan.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Those who weren’t dismissed were jailed or forced into exile.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 3 Jan. 2026
Thousands of people who protested the government’s declaration of victory were jailed.
—Reuters
wire Service, Dallas Morning News, 3 Jan. 2026
The year before, Lambert had jailed a father for killing his two-month-old son.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
In the aftermath of her refusal, Davis was jailed for acting in contempt of court and lost her clerk re-election.
—NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
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While jailed, Braddy also became known for delaying his first trial by going through 10 lawyers and, at one point, representing himself.
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The royal family was captured in Varennes and imprisoned; the king and queen were later executed.—
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The interim Venezuelan government has offered a token trickle of freedom to opposition prisoners since the capture of former dictator Nicolas Maduro, but hundreds remain imprisoned.—
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Time captive within the grand edifices of the past, parading on the stage of memory.—
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Much of the film’s drama then ensues inside Teddy and Don’s basement like a pseudo chamber piece as captor and captive face off in a battle of wits, logic and strange faith that blurs the lines between divisive politics, conspiracy and cosmic truth.—
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Scott moved to New York City and attended the Culinary Institute of New York in 2009, and later interned at the Food Network.—
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By June 1945, some 400 POWs were interned at the camp.—
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Monday, that same man was a criminal defendant incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York’s Brooklyn borough, having just been arraigned on drug trafficking, narcoterrorism and weapons charges.—
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He has never been incarcerated; he has never even been arrested.—
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“Jailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jailed. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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