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as in restriction
the act or practice of keeping something (as an activity) within certain boundaries the confinement of commercial development to one stretch of roadway is intended to help preserve the town's rural character

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Recent Examples of confinement Discontent with confinement and mistreatment, some attempt to escape and even attack their peers. Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 Biden’s autopen signature was used to issue major clemency orders in the final two months of his term that affected more than 4,000 individuals, including drug offenders and those placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025 Human rights groups claim the agreement lacks protections against torture or indefinite confinement for detainees. Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025 Many of the other 250 individuals sent to El Salvador to be imprisoned in a maximum-security confinement center for four months were also accused of being gang members, but the government never presented clear evidence. Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for confinement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confinement
Noun
  • At his request, his appearance was not announced in advance so the focus could remain on Omer Shem Tov’s spiritual journey during captivity.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Cervantes’ captivity brought him in contact with Muslim culture.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, any further restrictions on shots by ACIP could have trickle-down effects, further depressing already declining immunization rates for vaccine-preventable diseases and raising the risk of outbreaks.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah have all received approval from the USDA to move forward with these restrictions.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ameya sits down with her neighbor's 84-year-old grandmother, who was forced out of California and sent to an internment camp in Wyoming as a young girl.
    Steve Drummond, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The worst part of the internment was its indeterminacy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That limitation has capped how much carbon plants can lock away.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Gulf states like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE could utilize their vast sovereign wealth funds to impose trade limitations on Israel.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still grieving the death of his wife and the imprisonment of his son, Brandis binges on booze but possesses a sharp and intuitive mind, even if his family life is in disarray.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The two men care for each other amidst the squalid conditions of their imprisonment in 1970s Argentina.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But my incarceration now, like my glorious delusion then, cannot quell that yearning for something more.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The mix of short-term detainees and long-haul prisoners makes SeaTac a unique microcosm of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), where courtroom drama and the gritty realities of incarceration meet under one roof.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scott was convicted of murder and sent to prison.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Barr was attorney general when Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, a death that was later deemed a suicide.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Confinement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confinement. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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