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
Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Stella Canino-Quiñones is The Baltimore Sun’s Mary Corey intern.
—Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
Tencent also mentioned adding 28,000 interns over the next three years, surpassing our own ambitious intern program.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Tristan Ramos, a recent graduate of Elmhurst University, will be the conducting intern.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Trainee doctors constitute 30% to 45% of the physician workforce in major teaching hospitals, part of a system that relies on resident and interns’ cheap labor to offset the low reimbursement rates set by the government’s single-payer National Health Insurance System.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Stella Canino-Quiñones is The Baltimore Sun’s Mary Corey intern.
—Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2025
Tencent also mentioned adding 28,000 interns over the next three years, surpassing our own ambitious intern program.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Tristan Ramos, a recent graduate of Elmhurst University, will be the conducting intern.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intern
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From elsewhere The immigrant families jailed in Texas [New Yorker] My former colleague Jack Herrera reports that under the Trump administration, ICE is jailing families who have lived in the U.S. for years and is sending them to Texas.—
Fidel Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Jelly, who was first arrested at 14 years old, has been jailed more than 40 times throughout his life on multiple drug offenses.—
Emlyn Travis,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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In long-term care, however, families and residents may worry that correcting the way staff members speak could create antagonisms.—
Paula Span,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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When the original owner of the bookstore needed to move locations down the road, the town residents showed up in droves, creating a human conveyor belt moving the books hand-to-hand down to the new location.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Travel + Leisure readers ranked these in the top 10 of the 2024 World's Best Awards.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
1 May 2025
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Millay, an assiduous reader and enthusiastic quoter of poetry, was surely familiar with their work.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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President Donald Trump has launched harsh immigration actions in his first 100 days in office—detaining more people for immigration violations, allowing arrests outside schools and courthouses, and sending more than 200 Venezuelan men to be imprisoned in El Salvador.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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The policy saw payments go to family members of Palestinians who were imprisoned, killed or injured in connection with attacks against Israelis.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Doctors and nurses were wheeling his wife, 33-year-old Hailey Okula, to the intensive care unit shortly after giving birth to their son, Crew, by cesarean section at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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This ranking highlights 444 maternity hospitals across the U.S. based on hospital quality metrics, patient experience surveys and recommendations from health care professionals across the nation, including neonatal and perinatal doctors, nurses and midwives.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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This 74-episode slow-burn neo-noir mystery series is about a successful young surgeon enmeshed in the underbelly of international crime and politics.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Eyelid surgery at a top-tier surgeon, for example, was $2,000.—
Parizaad Khan Sethi,
Allure,
2 May 2025
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But while the Gemstones themselves have embraced Kelvin and his coming out, the rest of the world — particularly rival preacher Vance Simkins (Stephen Dorff), Kelvin’s competition for the ridiculous title of Top Christ-Following Man — is more critical.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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Preacher Boy shows off his heavenly voice and affinity for jazz music, but his father, an actual preacher, rebukes the genre as the devil’s music, like most good Christians did back then.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
18 Apr. 2025
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Reggie Premo, a community outreach specialist at the University of Nevada-Reno Extension, grew up cattle ranching and farming alfalfa in Duck Valley.—
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | KFF Health News,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Following its acquisition by the UAE’s leading real estate specialist, Aldar, London Square is now refocusing on the prime luxury property market, with a number of exciting high-profile developments launching this year.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
29 Apr. 2025
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