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Recent Examples of containment
Currently, details about the containment or cause of the fire are unknown.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
Wildfires in northern Arizona, including near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, saw gradual containment efforts.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
In western Colorado, crews working a series of wildfires made gains over the weekend, setting up fire lines and increasing containment percentages.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 21 July 2025
If government or corporate interests take the wheel, cost containment is likely to come at the expense of public health.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
Wildfires in northern Arizona, including near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, saw gradual containment efforts.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
In western Colorado, crews working a series of wildfires made gains over the weekend, setting up fire lines and increasing containment percentages.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 21 July 2025
If government or corporate interests take the wheel, cost containment is likely to come at the expense of public health.
—Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
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However, what began as a fair living situation has spiraled into passive-aggressive whispers and feelings of isolation.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The horizon is ever-present, either as a forbidding blankness or a flat, shimmering cityscape that reinforces the characters’ growing isolation.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Roy’s Taxi Entrepreneurial opportunities for providing private transportation services in Austin have been shaped largely by segregation, regulation and innovation.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025
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The problems to surmount were structural: deindustrialization, entrenched segregation, economic marginalization—conditions shaped by Jim Crow, but not undone by its eclipse.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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