as in to confine
to keep (a person or animal) away from others to prevent a disease from spreading
The hospital quarantined the infected patients. The dog was immediately quarantined.
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Recent Examples of quarantine
Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Moreover, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore and Bruce Willis quarantined together with their daughters in their family home in Idaho, along with Willis’ second wife, Emma Heming, and Willis and Heming’s two young daughters.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
Like its industry brethren, IKEA boomed at the beginning of the pandemic as quarantines and work-from-home arrangements encouraged home interior makeovers.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Verb
Now, a recent outbreak in one North Dakota county has led local health officials to quarantine nearly 200 unvaccinated students.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Moreover, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore and Bruce Willis quarantined together with their daughters in their family home in Idaho, along with Willis’ second wife, Emma Heming, and Willis and Heming’s two young daughters.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
The birds that survived were taken to a U.S. Department of Agriculture quarantine facility, according to prosecutors.
—Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
Like its industry brethren, IKEA boomed at the beginning of the pandemic as quarantines and work-from-home arrangements encouraged home interior makeovers.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantine
Verb
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Having expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve those confined to their homes and working remotely, the industry has been shedding jobs month by month.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
5 June 2025
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Also, should rebuilding Black communities be confined to those who have been involved with the criminal justice system?—
Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Here are the four key takeaways every parent should remember: This generation faces unprecedented risks due to a perfect storm of factors including ongoing brain development, mental health crises, the fentanyl epidemic, and social isolation.—
Charell G. Coleman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Inmates on the first step could be out of isolation and in a group setting for four hours a day, said Raemisch, the former head of the Colorado prison system.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2025
Verb
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To remove that barrier, managers can ensure their team receives basic AI literacy and capability training.—
Heide Abelli,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Specifically, in what’s known as a founder effect, a small subset of the surviving population branched off to form its own colony, increasing the segregation of fall-spawning and spring-spawning sturgeon.—
Benjamin Cassidy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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The white minority in South Africa established and perpetuated a culture of apartheid in South Africa for over 40 years until the early 1990s, resulting in systematic oppression, political domination, segregation and discrimination against the predominantly Black population.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 May 2025
Verb
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While they are legally separated, their divorce has stalled due to Girardi's conservatorship and legal troubles.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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Sea to land To separate the sea courses from the land courses, Bost serves a surprise palate cleanser, a dish of orgeat (almond flavored) ice cream topped with N25 Kaluga caviar, almond oil and shavings of aged celery root.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
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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.—
Colleen Barry,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
Verb
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My husband was isolating in our spare bedroom, leaving food outside my door three times a day.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
31 May 2025
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Each bar also contained a dark chocolate coating made with cocoa sweetener, vegetable dietary fiber, maltitol syrup, soy nuggets, soy protein isolate, chopped cocoa cookie, sunflower oil, and sorbitol syrup.—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
29 May 2025
Noun
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When Bloodlines begins, she’s lived in seclusion for years, having doomed her descendants by cheating death herself.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Photo : Joe Kravetz for Laurel & Grand Old-growth trees surround the home and add to the sense of seclusion.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
15 May 2025
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“Quarantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantine. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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