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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 Peltier, 80, will now serve indefinite home confinement. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025 The resulting funds could only be used by the interned to pay for their confinement. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025 The lives of poor Liberians were temporarily suspended, bracketed by confinement, while those with far more resources could transcend it. Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025 This reduced the dogs chances of being adopted, leading to longer periods of time in the confinement of the shelter environment and the development of more undesirable behaviors. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for confinement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confinement
Noun
  • It’s been just over eight months since the Jamaican dancehall legend was freed from captivity after serving 13 years behind bars for a murder conviction that was overturned on appeal in March 2024.
    Rob Kenner, VIBE.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • A little more than 200 red wolves live in captivity, but fewer than 20 exist in the wild — all in a rural five-county section of northeastern North Carolina.
    Zachery Eanes, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Some regulators might see stablecoins as competition to or complementary with CBDCs, leading to either tighter restrictions or new forms of partnership.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Other states are also debating whether to remove transfer restrictions.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the only way our leaders should approach the Alien Enemies Act in the modern day is by acknowledging the fundamental injustice of wartime internment and expulsions and by working to repeal the law, not resurrecting it to devastate the lives of other immigrants who call this country home.
    Karen Ebel, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The final internment camps didn’t close until 1948, approximately three years after the second world war ended, according to the National Archives.
    Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the most likely outcome for that second leg is another clear demonstration of the squad’s limitations.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The cooperative’s governing documents guide the board’s decisions, outlining specific responsibilities and limitations.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Imagine trying to make one of the most consequential decisions of your life — whether to take a deal or to fight your case and risk incarceration — without ever seeing the evidence against you.
    Chris Alexander, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Weber and his wife, Brenda, are founders of CORE Professional Services, which helps offenders transition back into the community after incarceration.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Confinement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confinement. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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