as in to confine
to deprive of the ability or liberty to leave
impound stray animals
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Recent Examples of impound
According to the probable cause statement, those dogs were caught and impounded.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
The government’s coffers must then be impounded and redirected, according to the blogger.
—Ed Simon, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
Among the changes the city also sought was to delineate when police can impound goods, equipment, and merchandise, including preventing vendors from leaving those items unattended.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Separately, lawmakers are weighing Trump’s interest in impounding funding already approved by Congress.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
The government’s coffers must then be impounded and redirected, according to the blogger.
—Ed Simon, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
Among the changes the city also sought was to delineate when police can impound goods, equipment, and merchandise, including preventing vendors from leaving those items unattended.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Separately, lawmakers are weighing Trump’s interest in impounding funding already approved by Congress.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impound
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This framework was sustainable—both strategically and politically—as long as the U.S. military retained its dominance in the region, the threat from China was confined, and the potential contributions of U.S. allies were limited to their own self-defense.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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But, in the United States, driverless cars are confined to a handful of cities and operated, as robo-taxis, by a small number of companies.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
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Cruising Altitude: Air traffic control keeps planes moving.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Instead, the characters keep finding themselves in implausibly dangerous situations, where a procession of coincidences might lead to them getting squished, impaled, or otherwise maimed.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Golden State’s defense swarmed Plum with traps and forced the ball out of her hands, limiting her to 16 points on six-of-18 shooting, including two for 10 from beyond the arc.—
Anthony De Leon,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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What To Know Introduced by Representatives King and Roy Klopfenstein, House Bill 1, seeks to limit who can be a land owner in the Buckeye state.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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But that plan hinges on reducing the number of people incarcerated.—
Justyna Rzewinski,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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In the early predawn hours of Friday, May 16, no sheriff's deputy was assigned to the part of the jail where the escaped inmates were incarcerated, and a civilian worker monitoring the area had briefly stepped away to get food, according to the sheriff's office.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
21 May 2025
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While Clark enjoys taking his animals to schools and community events, city regulations restrict him from bringing some species into urban areas.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2025
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Evans told me in April the company’s game plan is to export the bitcoin treasury playbook around the world to unlock investors who may be restricted from – or can not easily access – a U.S. company like Strategy.—
Colin Harper,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Law enforcement officers in Arkansas were on the hunt Wednesday for a former police chief who broke out of a state facility where he was imprisoned for rape and murder.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Larry Hoover remains imprisoned under a state murder conviction despite the commutation of his federal sentences by President Donald Trump.—
Tahar Rajab,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang said in a press briefing Thursday that those who were jailed for national security offenses and freed from correctional facilities enjoy freedoms, including freedom of expression, like other residents.—
Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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Two Miami-Dade County employees were jailed Wednesday on charges of stealing public artwork valued at more than $50,000 from Port Miami, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
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Violators could pay up to $200 in fines and up to $250 plus court costs for driving with children who aren't properly restrained.—
Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi,
Axios,
22 May 2025
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Yet, while our adversaries surge ahead, the Pentagon remains restrained by decision-making processes conceived in the 1960s and barely updated since the 1990s.—
Charles Beames,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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“Impound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impound. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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