as in to confine
to deprive of the ability or liberty to leave
impound stray animals
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Recent Examples of impound
There’s simply nothing in the Constitution that supports the argument that the president can impound funds that Congress commands him to spend.
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 22 Mar. 2025
Animal control officers impounded the pit bull Thursday night, Putthoff said.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The Impoundment Control Act doesn't prohibit the president from impounding funds.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
The changes expand the city’s authority to impound goods and equipment due to unsafe practices to force compliance.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 22 Mar. 2025
Animal control officers impounded the pit bull Thursday night, Putthoff said.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The Impoundment Control Act doesn't prohibit the president from impounding funds.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
The changes expand the city’s authority to impound goods and equipment due to unsafe practices to force compliance.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impound
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impound
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Dempsey was sent to live with a distant city counselor and grew up to work in data entry, confined to her apartment computer.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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No longer confined to the pursuit of profit alone, these powerful forces are being reimagined as instruments of global healing, capable of restoring trust, dignity and interconnectedness across all sectors.—
Yujia Zhu,
Forbes.com,
15 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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And that group could eventually reach six, as Manny Machado, Nolan Arenado and José Ramírez keep doing their thing.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The prosecutor’s office has had to limit the amount of transcripts available to attorneys, since transcripts are ordered at cost, and has had to revert to collecting depositions virtually.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
24 May 2025
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The National Medical Association said the federal and state efforts to cut diversity, equity and inclusion is limiting access to medical education for the next generation of Black physicians.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
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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Earlier this year President Trump signed an executive order which seeks to restrict this right, which was established by the 14th Amendment in 1868.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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Johnson’s relationship with DeSantis — whose administration has crusaded against diversity efforts at Florida’s public universities and sought to restrict how African American history is taught — has triggered raucous protests across the FAMU community in Tallahassee and nationwide.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
17 May 2025
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Mujica was imprisoned for thirteen years, much of it in a solitary underground cell—an experience that nearly drove him mad.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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The Trump administration deported over 200 immigrants to the Central American country in two separate flights after securing a deal with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, which involved paying the nation's government millions of dollars to imprison migrants.—
Billal Rahman
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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Combs has been jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Donald had also been jailed on weapon possession charges.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 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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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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“Impound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impound. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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