containment

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Recent Examples of containment The incident highlights the dangers of autonomous AI agents, which can break out of containment and exploit potentially huge numbers of cybersecurity vulnerabilities with ease. Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 22 July 2026 Large air tankers were called in Monday night to slow the fire’s eastern spread while firefighters, engines and bulldozers worked to strengthen containment lines. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026 The Willow fire had consumed roughly 7,196 acres with 41% containment as of Tuesday morning, according to fire officials. Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 July 2026 The recent intrusion at Hugging Face has been traced to AI models breaking out of containment at OpenAI and using a zero-day vulnerability to access the open internet. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
  • Across society, loneliness and social isolation continue to rise.
    Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Irritability and low energy and a knife-sharp craving for isolation.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • Morrison helped lead the racist white supremacy campaign of 1898 that terrorized Black citizens and led to policies of segregation, The Observer previously reported.
    Chase Jordan July 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • Well, thank God the Dodgers broke baseball’s longstanding tradition of segregation long before Roberts, who is Black and Japanese American, was born!
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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