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
Philip SiekmanSynonyms
Examples of internment in a Sentence
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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Uchida worked as a laboratory technician in the medical corps at a time the rest of his family members were sent to internment camps as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to relocate 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-American residents from the West Coast.
—Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
During this time, China faced rising foreign opprobrium for its internment camps in Xinjiang and its crackdown on protests in Hong Kong.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
The reparations list goes well beyond often cited payments to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and Japanese Americans incarcerated in World War II internment camps.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
In 1988, for example, the U.S. government paid reparations to Japanese Americans – and in some cases, their descendants – who were forced into internment camps during World War II.
—Cornell William Brooks, The Conversation, 19 June 2024
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Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
During this time, China faced rising foreign opprobrium for its internment camps in Xinjiang and its crackdown on protests in Hong Kong.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
The reparations list goes well beyond often cited payments to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and Japanese Americans incarcerated in World War II internment camps.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
In 1988, for example, the U.S. government paid reparations to Japanese Americans – and in some cases, their descendants – who were forced into internment camps during World War II.
—Cornell William Brooks, The Conversation, 19 June 2024
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“Internment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internment. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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