as in to jail
to put in or as if in prison
some Polish citizens were interned in Russian camps during World War II
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as in resident
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as in reader
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Recent Examples of intern
Kc Baker, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
The trailer includes interviews with Combs' former bodyguard, intern, makeup artist and producer.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Then Romy meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a 20-something intern at her company.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
And this also happens to be the day that the trauma center welcomes a new class of interns and residents, filling the ER with wide-eyed neophytes like Wyle’s John Carter was in the pilot for ER.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Viewers will hear from one of Combs’ former bodyguards, a childhood friend, an intern and a winner of Combs’ one-time hit show, Making the Band.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
The trailer includes interviews with Combs' former bodyguard, intern, makeup artist and producer.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Then Romy meets Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a 20-something intern at her company.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
And this also happens to be the day that the trauma center welcomes a new class of interns and residents, filling the ER with wide-eyed neophytes like Wyle’s John Carter was in the pilot for ER.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
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Verb
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During the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines from 1972 to 1986, the United States trained and funded a Philippine army that tortured, jailed, and disappeared thousands of dissidents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Robinson was jailed after admitting contempt of court last year for continually repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee that led to the refugee and his family receiving death threats.—
David Gilbert,
WIRED,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The utility supplies water and electrical service to 4.1 million residents of L.A., including Pacific Palisades.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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To reduce the dust’s impact, NU began to take steps to mitigate the reduce the dust spread, and offered free car washes to residents affected it.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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Thank you, Dan, for enlightening readers with your bird’s eye views of Maryland whether the view was from a nearby Baltimore stoop or the more distant wild and scenic Youghiogheny River in Western Maryland.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Jan. 2025
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Desiree is exploring Charlotte and the Carolinas, and is looking forward to taking readers along for the ride.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2025
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The decision marks another significant setback for Khan, who has been imprisoned since 2023.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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Mediators said Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause the fighting in Gaza starting Sunday after 15 months of war and to begin exchanging dozens of hostages held there for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.—
Joseph Krauss,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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So far, the nation’s economic prospects and cultural saliency as the de facto country of immigrants has meant that, despite sometimes harsher and sometimes looser policies, people want to come and settle down and become business owners and nurses and technicians and artists.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Figueredo, the nurse who helped Rosales, plans to get a green card under a 1966 law that applies to Cubans.—
Elliot Spagat,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That changed when a head-and-neck surgeon put on a glove, poked the back of my wife’s throat and said one of her tonsils felt concerningly hard.—
Paul Thornton,
Twin Cities,
14 Jan. 2025
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She was horrified by this and wanted to create a space for people to find honest and balanced information—from someone who not only worked as a cancer surgeon, but fought it too.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
11 Jan. 2025
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The family later moved to Tulsa, Okla., where his father became a preacher and his mother, Joyce (Schott) Ray, managed the home.—
Clay Risen,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Bruer, 67, had served in at least 22 states and territories and seven countries since 1976, according to a timeline compiled by Pam Walton, a former member who has used historical records and photographs to track the movements of predatory preachers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2024
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Each specialist should be steeped in the M&A legal considerations relevant to your deal and practice their specialty full time.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Heist movies are often compared to filmmaking since both require a team of specialists to pull off the impossible.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Intern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intern. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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