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Recent Examples of containment
There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has yet to be determined.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2025
So, what’s on the horizon for pharmacy benefits this year, and how might these shifts reshape the way employers think about cost containment?
—Yasser Almuaala, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Russian leader Vladimir Putin deployed emergency aircraft to help with containment.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
Fire crews are continuing to focus on containment operations in affected areas.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2025
So, what’s on the horizon for pharmacy benefits this year, and how might these shifts reshape the way employers think about cost containment?
—Yasser Almuaala, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Russian leader Vladimir Putin deployed emergency aircraft to help with containment.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
Fire crews are continuing to focus on containment operations in affected areas.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for containment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
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The spatial isolation of these colonies would aid humanity’s survival, argues Dr Gee, by allowing genetically distinct human communities to develop that could interbreed with people still living on Earth or elsewhere in space to produce offspring with the best qualities of both groups.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Read: The isolation of intensive parenting Others aren’t as eager to embrace external influences, especially not so close to home.—
Rhaina Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2025
Noun
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Under apartheid, a white minority ruled South Africa for much of the second half of the 20th century, enforcing a system of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhite populations.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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The people who attained refugee status are part of the ethnic minority of Afrikaners, a group of white people of Dutch descent who ruled South Africa during the period of racial segregation known as apartheid.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
15 May 2025
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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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