as in amnesty
permission given to a prisoner to leave prison before the end of a sentence usually as a reward for behaving well
The prisoner will be eligible for parole after three years. He was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Recent Examples of parole
Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
He had been arrested in 2019 for murder in Los Angeles County and sentenced to 80 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole, officials said.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
He was paroled in 2017, but was arrested later that same year on four charges of forcible touching, police said.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Terry Nichols, an associate of McVeigh’s, surrendered in Herington, Kansas, and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
He had been arrested in 2019 for murder in Los Angeles County and sentenced to 80 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole, officials said.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
During the Biden administration, more than a million individuals were paroled into the U.S., meaning they were legally admitted under temporary programs.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
He was paroled in 2017, but was arrested later that same year on four charges of forcible touching, police said.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parole
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The men who abducted Paiva were indicted by federal prosecutors in 2014—but they have been protected by an amnesty law, passed as the regime was coming to an end, which has effectively kept the country from reckoning with the savagery of military rule.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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This month, though, Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced an amnesty program wherein all of those penalties have been waived.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Consider the 2006 mass pardon in Italy, in which 40% of all inmates in the country were released from prison all at once.—
Jens Ludwig,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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Delo also expressed his gratefulness to Trump for the pardon.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Hundreds had to be rescued, and most of the deaths were caused by vehicles getting stuck in high water.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Officials can be seen running toward plumes of smoke after the partial building collapsed to rescue the firefighter.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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This could suggest that while attackers are targeting more victims, fewer are giving in to ransom demands.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
7 Feb. 2025
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While Mikhail managed to escape by climbing out a window and taking refuge in a nearby nunnery, the men took his son hostage, and Mikhail was not able to ransom him until several days later.—
Youmna Melhem Chamieh,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Parole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parole. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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