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Recent Examples of oubliette
One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
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Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
This godown was an oubliette.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Let the novel open like an oubliette under your feet.
—Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
Noun
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This season’s cast includes a professional bull rider, event curator, marketing manager, AI consultant, aura painter, attorney, dungeon master, and a mysterious Houseguest who will be revealed later.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Among the 16 all-new Houseguests competing for the $750,000 grand prize this summer are an aura painter, a dungeon master and a professional bull rider.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
8 July 2025
Noun
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The perspective of the newspapers is also critical because most information about incarceration comes from law enforcement personnel and prison data, which tend to frame prison populations as a singular unit and focus on data instead of people.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 July 2025
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What To Know According to an anonymous source speaking to the Daily Mail, Maxwell, who was convicted in 2022 over her links to Epstein's illicit activities and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, has expressed a willingness to testify before Congress about her experiences.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
Noun
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As reported in 5280, Richard served 30 days in jail and 60 nights of work release.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
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Here’s hoping the real-life couple’s big day went more smoothly than Elizabeth and Henry’s Season 5 vow renewal, which took place at an Arizona jail after she was arrested for speaking out against draconian family separation policies at the United States border.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
15 July 2025
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But local officials and historians have questioned the practical and symbolic implications of converting the island back into a penitentiary.—
Kate Talerico,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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Her various occupations, paid and unpaid, included teaching convicts at an area penitentiary and substitute-teaching in junior high.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025
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The two returned to court in front of Judge Dawn Nichols at the Volusia County Courthouse at 10 a.m. with Hunter in the courtroom and Victorino present from a jailhouse feed.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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Nationwide, there have been 256 exonerations tied to the use of jailhouse informants, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2022
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Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.—
Yxta Maya Murray,
Longreads,
19 Aug. 2020
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For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.—
Robert Kolarik,
San Antonio Express-News,
23 Feb. 2018
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For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.—
Robert Kolarik,
San Antonio Express-News,
23 Feb. 2018
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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