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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an incommunicado" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "incommunicado" is typically used as an adjective or adverb without the article "an."
Example: "The suspect was held incommunicado for several days without any contact with the outside world."
Alternatives: "isolated" or "cut off from communication."
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A draft report from a taskforce on policing handpicked by the embattled Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says that black distrust of the Chicago police is "justified", it has emerged, as Chicagoans outraged by the police shooting of a 16-year-old took their anger to the warehouse exposed by the Guardian as an incommunicado detentions and interrogations center.
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He was taken to a safe house in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, and held in a bedroom, incommunicado, for a month.
In 2013, the UAE also held a journalist incommunicado and without charge for a month over alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In addition to issuing about 10 new books a year, Incommunicado recorded poetry and story readings, and distributed them over the Internet.
He talks on two cell phones at once, carrying spare batteries to ensure he won't go a minute incommunicado.
"To hold a citizen incommunicado and indefinitely while awaiting trial for the alleged crime of serving as a journalistic source should outrage us all".
The executive branch, Mr. Dunham said, "does not have the authority to detain an American citizen incommunicado and to unilaterally withdraw from the courts the power to inquire into the propriety of his detention".
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that Jose Padilla, who has been held incommunicado as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig since June, may consult with lawyers challenging his detention.
Xiu spent a year largely incommunicado before she was released.
Detainees were held incommunicado, a fancy word for "disappeared": never informed of the charges against them.
Overruling the government, the Appeal Court ordered the release of a Libyan held incommunicado for 16 months at London's high-security Belmarsh Prison.
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