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Recent Examples of containment
Authorities emphasized there was no danger to the population, and the pyroclastic flow — a fast-moving mixture of rock fragments, gas and ash — was limited to about 2 kilometers (more than a mile) and didn’t go beyond the Valle del Leone, or Lion Valley, which forms a natural containment area.
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Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
Beijing has been expanding its military reach and presence beyond the First Island Chain, a U.S. containment strategy formed by Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2025
On January 15, during a United Airlines flight from Dulles, Va., to San Francisco, a passenger's cell phone went into thermal runaway and crew contained the fire in a thermal containment bag.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
Beijing has been expanding its military reach and presence beyond the First Island Chain, a U.S. containment strategy formed by Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2025
On January 15, during a United Airlines flight from Dulles, Va., to San Francisco, a passenger's cell phone went into thermal runaway and crew contained the fire in a thermal containment bag.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
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Playing together helps children learn to forge connections with others Online kindergarten could not solve the problem of isolation.—
UNICEF USA,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The novel, recently adapted into a film starring Glenn Close, encapsulates Jansson’s love of rugged isolation.—
Patrick Sauer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
Noun
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The largest detention center in California, Adelanto has for years been the focus of complaints from detainees, attorneys and state and federal inspectors about inadequate medical care, overly restrictive segregation and lax mental health services.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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This is maybe understandable in the former states of the Confederacy where Republicans took control not as the Party of Lincoln, but as the alternative to the Democrats who had abandoned legal segregation after 90 years of succoring segregation and Jim Crow.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
20 June 2025
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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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