internment
noun
in·tern·ment
in-ˈtərn-mənt 
ˈin-ˌtərn-
plural internments
: the act of interning someone or the state of being interned
His parents had never told him about the exclusion laws, or the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the subject had not come up in his textbooks.—
Timothy Egan
Timothy EganEven in the midst of betrayal and the resulting alienation experienced in the internment, there exists the unnegotiable state of human bonds and possibility for reconciliation.—Fumitaka Matsuoka
Fumitaka Matsuoka… an American who spent World War II with his parents in an internment camp.—Philip Siekman
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the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II is one of the more shameful chapters in United States history
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Later, Takei's family was shipped by train to an internment camp in Arkansas, one of 10 such camps in the U.S.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
Detention centers and processing camps would need to be established nationwide, potentially creating scenes reminiscent of America's internment camps during World War II.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
To Shibutani, who had spent the war imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in California, rumor was more of a verb than a noun, a collective process of making sense of the world.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
The exhibit also covers the internment of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
Detention centers and processing camps would need to be established nationwide, potentially creating scenes reminiscent of America's internment camps during World War II.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
To Shibutani, who had spent the war imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in California, rumor was more of a verb than a noun, a collective process of making sense of the world.
—science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
The exhibit also covers the internment of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Internment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internment. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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