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How to pronounce “incarceration”
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Pronunciation guide for incarceration
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of incarceration with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Women Behind Bars
to be proximate to the human costs of mass incarceration.
- Definition summary
- (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
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How to pronounce incarceration
Women Behind Bars

to be proximate to the human costs of mass incarceration.
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A Deep Dive Into “incarceration”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
- (surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
- A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
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