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
Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
What emerged as one of the great tandems in NFL history began with Veach in 2004 and 2005 serving as a training camp intern for Reid’s Eagles.
—Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
Lily previously wrote for BusinessDen, Denver's online local business news publication, and worked as an intern for 5280.
—Lily O'Neill, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2024, Rotschedl was hired as an intern at Tetra Tech, an environmental consulting firm with private and government clients, and became a full employee in 2025, working in geophysics, energy, industrial hygienics and biology.
—Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Some businesses are boosting intern and new-grad hiring One bright spot for current students is that internship postings on ZipRecruiter are up 32% year-over-year, primarily in white-collar fields, despite concerns that AI is eliminating entry-level jobs.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
What emerged as one of the great tandems in NFL history began with Veach in 2004 and 2005 serving as a training camp intern for Reid’s Eagles.
—Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
Lily previously wrote for BusinessDen, Denver's online local business news publication, and worked as an intern for 5280.
—Lily O'Neill, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
In 2024, Rotschedl was hired as an intern at Tetra Tech, an environmental consulting firm with private and government clients, and became a full employee in 2025, working in geophysics, energy, industrial hygienics and biology.
—Nicole Gregory, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intern
Verb
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Lil Tjay was briefly jailed on suspicion of misdemeanor disorderly conduct-affray before he was released on $500 bond.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Nick Reiner, 32, who remains jailed without bail, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charges against him.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Once constructed, the sleeping cabin program will provide wrap-around services, meals and case management services to residents with the goal of transitioning them into permanent housing.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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More than 11 million residents live in the city proper alone.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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What’s paramount for me is that the readers will care about what happens next for the narrator.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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One event in London offered to put her book in front of nearly 800 readers.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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The project denounces Haiti’s justice system through the story of a woman imprisoned for years without trial and later judged not by law, but by scripture.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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Those who answered no to the questions were, in most cases, imprisoned for the remainder of the war or beyond.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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The campaign focuses on supporting NICU infants with products designed alongside nurses and doctors to meet their specific needs.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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Syrians and Haitians – including an aspiring neuroscientist, a software engineer and a registered nurse − challenged that decision.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Six student teams from McDaniel College’s Entrepreneurship course, taught by adjunct lecturer in Economics and Business Administration Jonathan Pernell, competed for a $5,000 top prize by presenting their entrepreneurial ideas and innovative products to a panel of experts.—
Jeffrey F. Bill,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
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Johnson has been traveling to South Florida for a week each month this semester as a visiting lecturer and co-teacher in a University of Miami political science class.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Audrey Hudson, twenty-four, is a gifted battlefield surgeon who feigns muteness to comfort Carter Reynolds, a combat soldier deafened by an explosion.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Charged with pulling out of Mary the hurt inside, Coel exquisitely performs the task with the precision of an elite surgeon.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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Dollison was a regular contributor to the Church of Christ publication The Living Message, which credited him as being a major inspiration for many influential Arkansas Church of Christ preachers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Apr. 2026
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The performances had the energy and verve of a Pentecostal revival, with James playing the role of charismatic preacher.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Intern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intern. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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