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containment

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as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment Firefighters held the blaze to 640 acres while working to strengthen containment lines in steep, rugged terrain. — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Hacktron conducted the entire operation within 72 hours in late July, soon after some of OpenAI’s agents broke containment and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026 The clarity of questioning in Lim’s work reminds us that poetry, like desire, offers intimacy and containment in moments of crisis and estrangement. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026 The problem is speed without containment, testing, accountability and governance. — Larry Bradley, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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The garage has been converted into a medical and isolation ward equipped with incubators, oxygen machines, and supplies for treating wounds and administering fluids.

— Meg Dunn, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
In a brief conversation with Variety after the show, Aitken said that, broadly speaking, the installation was a reflection of the isolation and dissocations people can feel in modern society.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of isolation

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Previously, Electrek reported that Black Tesla workers at the facility were subjected to racial prejudice by way of wage discrimination, segregation, and racial slurs.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
In response to racial segregation in the 1950s and ’60s, Atlanta Public Schools introduced the Majority-to-Minority, or M-to-M, transfer program.

— Amari Brown, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026

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