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Recent Examples of containment
Two helicopters dropped off hand crews, who began to shovel in the area to establish containment lines.
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Firefighters then shifted to mop-up operations, extinguishing hotspots within the containment lines.
—Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026
Paraguay, meanwhile, were happy to oblige, dropping into containment mode, retreating into their own half and trying to feed off counter-attacking scraps.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 13 June 2026
The discovery represents a worrisome comeback for the species and a failure in containment for the U.S., reprising a decadeslong battle the country waged once already.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 June 2026
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Firefighters then shifted to mop-up operations, extinguishing hotspots within the containment lines.
—Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026
Paraguay, meanwhile, were happy to oblige, dropping into containment mode, retreating into their own half and trying to feed off counter-attacking scraps.
—Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 13 June 2026
The discovery represents a worrisome comeback for the species and a failure in containment for the U.S., reprising a decadeslong battle the country waged once already.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
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The irony is not lost on her; the same interconnected world that allows Korean dramas to find global audiences has also made genuine isolation almost impossible.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The Aura report finds that as the summer wears on, one in three children score low on Aura's Digital Wellbeing Index, which correlates digital behaviors with a range of health parameters, including sleep, mood, isolation and their ability to regulate emotions.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
19 June 2026
Noun
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The story does not flinch from the realities of segregation, including the violence that the family faced moving into white neighborhoods in Fort Worth in the 1950s, but there is more hope than fear, more faith in the power of righteousness to defeat injustice, in its pages.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Owens was begrudgingly congratulated by Hitler, but neither he nor the other Black medalists were ever even acknowledged by Roosevelt, who had also refused to endorse a boycott of the Games—an effort led by Black and Jewish organizations that opposed both Nazism and American segregation.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2026
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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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