Thesaurus results for CONTAINMENT

containment

noun

as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment Winds complicated containment and the fire eventually consumed 642,000 acres to become the state’s largest on record and the nation’s largest this year. —

Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 23 May 2026 The incident underscored growing tensions between health officials enforcing strict Ebola containment measures and local customs surrounding funerals and burial rites. —

Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026 The River Fire in Kern County had charred 3,535 acres and reached 98% containment, while the Sandy Fire in Ventura County had grown to 2,141 acres and remained 40% contained. —

Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026 Once a high-consequence zoonotic pathogen reaches human populations, containment is often uncertain, slow, and expensive. —

Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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Jocytė finished with three points in 16 minutes, most notably calling for an isolation against Clark and hitting a 3-pointer in her face.

— Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
The facility’s location was scheduled to be located on the Laikipia Airbase, about 125 miles north of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with additional isolation and biocontainment capacity to be added later, according to the US official.

— Larry Madowo, CNN Money, 29 May 2026