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as in included
to have as part of a whole
the contract contains several new clauses
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as in comprised
to be made up of
the recipe contains several parts
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as in calmed
to gain emotional or mental control of
could hardly contain herself when she heard that she had won the scholarship
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as in controlled
to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
frantic efforts to contain the spread of the disease
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as in composed
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Recent Examples of contained
Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 July 2025
The piece itself is a very contained script: two people, New York City, all-night shoots, felt very manageable to me.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
After the fire is fully contained, the next step is to control it.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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Verb
And beyond that, everyone else had to be very contained and very disciplined and very selfless.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 8 July 2025
The piece itself is a very contained script: two people, New York City, all-night shoots, felt very manageable to me.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
Adjective
The man's backpack contained medications for his conditions, the outlet reported.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
After the fire is fully contained, the next step is to control it.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for contained
Verb
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The rapper, who pleaded not guilty to all charges, has been held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center since he was arrested in September 2024.—
Daniel S. Levine,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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That means every state budget could be held hostage until the whims of a small fraction of legislators is satisfied.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Aug. 2025
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Analyzing its grocery orders that included candy in 2024, Instacart found each state's Halloween candy preferences.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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Big winners in Europe in the third quarter included Spanish stocks, the banking sector and chip giant ASML.—
Tasmin Lockwood,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Of that sum, traditional album sales comprised 39,000, marking Nine Inch Nails’ biggest sales week since 2013.—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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The second most common way professors used Claude was for academic research — this comprised 13% of conversations.—
Lee V. Gaines,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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The vascular system is composed of two major components, arteries and veins.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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He’s composed and routinely square to the puck.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Whitmer established the universal meals program when Democrats controlled both chambers of the Michigan Legislature.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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As Kering and Valentino restructure, the current ownership of the couture house, controlled by Mayhoola, will not change before 2028 at the earliest — an amendment to their shareholders’ agreement, inked at the time of Kering’s acquisition of a stake in Valentino in 2023.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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When the 24-year-old nets, the defender does his best to maintain his cool, calm and collected persona.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Talking dogs, strange vehicles, conspiracy theories, stupid acronyms: life imitates cult fiction, apparently, and somewhere along the line our reality started to resemble, with uncanny specificity, the collected works of Thomas Pynchon.—
Book Marks
September 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The device sounded terrifying – an apparently new, nuclear capable IRBM, fired with multiple conventional warheads, that the Kremlin boasted could rip through European defenses.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Portuguese won seven major trophies (three Premier Leagues, an FA Cup and three League Cups) during two spells at Stamford Bridge (2004-7, 2013-15) and boasted extraordinary statistics like not losing any of his first 77 home Premier League games (a run finally ended by Sunderland in 2014).—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Police spoke with the owner of Merchants Refrigeration, who suspected Arfsten, an employee, may have been involved in the incident.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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In May, Van Hecke was involved in an altercation in training with then-Brighton team-mate Joao Pedro.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Contained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contained. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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