Thesaurus results for CONTAINMENT

containment

noun

as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment Both locations are at around 35% containment, including Brantley County, which has seen 22,615 acres burned. —

Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 Although containment took more than two months, the damage reshaped the community. —

Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026 That collaboration, filmed March 31, is the one that broke containment. —

Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026 Fire crews ordered mandatory evacuations for the area near Hanover on Wednesday night, but lifted those evacuations at around 2 p.m. Thursday as firefighters confirmed containment on the wildfire, county officials said on Facebook. —

Katie Langford, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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Then the pandemic hit, and as kids navigated tough situations at home, isolation, more screen time and school closures, misbehavior got worse.

— Stacker, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026