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containment

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as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment In 2024, The Washington Post documented a major expansion at Sergiev Posad-6, a former Soviet bioweapons site outside Moscow, including new high-containment buildings. — Ashish K. Jha, STAT, 28 Sep. 2026 For instance, the Department of Natural Resources submitted a rule for legislative approval that sets up containment areas and disposes of carcasses for diseased animals. — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 As of late Sunday, the Dome Fire was at 3,042 acres and 15% containment at the southern end of the park near Wawona. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Hacktron conducted the entire operation within 72 hours in late July, soon after some of OpenAI’s agents broke containment and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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Curie's initial Nobel was for physics, but the second, for chemistry in 1911, recognized her work on polonium and the isolation of pure radium.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Fair Ones is set in the aftermath of their longtime friend Claire’s death, as Mara and Jen, two Brooklyn women in their forties, are off kilter, cycling through shock, numbness, denial, distraction, anger, isolation, regret, depression.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

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In somewhat bare-bones, cozy settings, Red Lobster became a middle-class family destination, and was welcoming to Black customers at a time when segregation, while outlawed, was still common in much of the American South.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Housing discrimination and segregation were deep-seated, and the Los Angeles sky was the color of swamp water.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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