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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A rocky island of northern California in San Francisco Bay. It was a military prison from 1859 to 1933 and a federal prison until 1963. It is now a tourist attraction. The island has long been known as “the Rock.”
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- proper noun Alcatraz Island, an
island in the San Francisco Bay, California, USA, formerly a famousprison
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Examples
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Clearly putting them in Alcatraz is a terrible idea; we would have Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage breaking in.
Matthew Yglesias » The Thunder and the Laughter, the Last Thing They Remember 2009
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Actually Alcatraz is as fine a place as any other to put terrorists.
Matthew Yglesias » The Thunder and the Laughter, the Last Thing They Remember 2009
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Now Alcatraz is back, through the guise of the bestselling author Brandon Sanderson (the perfect cover), to tell more of his story, and to help you learn the truth about our world.
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Now Alcatraz is back, through the guise of the bestselling author Brandon Sanderson (the perfect cover), to tell more of his story, and to help you learn the truth about our world.
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 He spent the remaining years of his life in Alcatraz prison where he was renamed âPop Gun Kellyâ for being a model prisoner.
Five Notorious Gangsters of the Great Depression | myFiveBest 2010
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Alcatraz is sitting out there in California wasting away.
Pentagon official in charge of closing Guantanamo Bay quits 2009
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Perenelle is still trapped in Alcatraz, and now that Scatty has gone missing, the group is without protection.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR APRIL 25TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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These right wing idiots are so stupid they probably think Alcatraz is still in operation.
Matthew Yglesias » The Thunder and the Laughter, the Last Thing They Remember 2009
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Perenelle is still trapped in Alcatraz, and now that Scatty has gone missing, the group is without protection.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR APRIL 25TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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In court Monday, government prosecutors didn't say just how Ms. Greig met the much older Mr. Bulger, but said that by the mid-1990s they had been a couple for years, with Mr. Bulger, who had served time for bank robbery as a younger man, keeping his weight-lifting belt inscribed with the name of Alcatraz prison at her house.
A Tale of Love, Escape in Bulger Case Hearing Jennifer Levitz 2011
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