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containment

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as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment OpenAI’s agents found a path out of containment; earlier tests by Anthropic and Meta were accidentally connected to the Internet; AISI enabled Internet access on purpose. — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026 The facility will next undergo containment pressure tests to ensure the outer shield can withstand extreme pressure spikes. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026 Could the company be looking for favorable media coverage about how its AI model is similarly capable of breaking containment? — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 6 Aug. 2026 Officials reported Wednesday that firefighters had established containment lines around the perimeters of all three fires affecting Spokane and that they were focused on reinforcing those lines. — ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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Midway into her pregnancy, the 26-year-old feared being put into isolation simply for having a fever, a common misconception.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
The acclaimed documentary captures a 20-year personal chronicle of a family struggling with severe mental illness and social isolation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026

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Many of the march’s leaders and participants were later imprisoned in the Women’s Jail, where activists were held separately according to their race, as apartheid enforced segregation everywhere in South Africa.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
The history of redlining, segregation and the lack of generational wealth shows how decisions made by the founding fathers created the landscape that exists for Black people in present day.

— Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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