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quarantined

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verb

past tense of quarantine

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quarantined
Adjective
To move warm-blooded animals outside of a quarantined area, the animal must be inspected and treated as required by the TAHC and issued a permit or certificate for movement by a TAHC representative. Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 8 June 2026 Grismer said the result of such quarantined conditions is the development of species that exist only there, at times inside of just a single cave. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 The quarantined products include 4-packs of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil and single cans of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt, both of which were recalled back in February 2025 after the company’s supplier flagged a manufacturing defect on the pull tab. Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026 The quarantined students were not vaccinated, officials added. Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
The department did not say if the person infected is quarantined or how long they have been infected and will not provide any information on them to protect their privacy. Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 Four days into the seven-day cruise, my wife came down with Type A flu and was quarantined in our small, windowless cabin. Josh Rivera, USA Today, 19 July 2026 Before all that, they were quarantined and given medical exams to establish baseline physical health. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026 Any livestock infected with new world screwworm are to be quarantined until all wounds heal, according to the UDSA. Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026 The family, who had been living in DRC since 2021, was evacuated to Berlin, Germany, where Stafford was quarantined and treated in hospital. Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 11 July 2026 Zach Raff, an assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics at NC State, previously told the Observer the parasite poses low risk to North Carolina as long as infected animals are quarantined. Eva Flowe july 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026 Spanish citizens will be quarantined, and people from other countries will be sent home. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Feliks is now in a zoo in northern Serbia where he must be quarantined for 21 days. ABC News, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined
Adjective
  • Black Pride Colorado Organizers say the world feels so separated, and pride will be used to keep everyone together.
    Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The separated explants, though, got busy dismantling parts of themselves that were no longer useful.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Yet many still fail to reach their full potential because the directors are insufficiently engaged, inadequately challenged or possibly confined to narrow definitions of their role.
    James Langabeer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The hot and windy trend will not be confined to eastern Washington.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The narrative then jumps forward to a time in the distant future in a segregated Britain, where Black people are condemned to a ghetto riddled with drugs and ruled by gangs.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 July 2026
  • Plaintiffs' attorney Alexander Shalom argued that housing the plaintiffs in a segregated unit violates their constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • Griffin Jax was set to start for the Rays, but was removed hours before first pitch because of discomfort in his right elbow.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • When later editions were printed, most of the overt Nazi symbolism was quietly removed from the signatures.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Big Brother 4 The first season with a sequestered jury (sorry, Danielle Reyes), Big Brother 4 was also the first installment in which players with a history outside of the house played together.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In 1941, Italian antifascists produced the Ventotene Manifesto (named for a small island where they were interned), calling for a federal socialist Europe.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Maney is a New Jersey native who once interned with radio shock jock Howard Stern and also worked with radio personality Elvis Duran.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • By embracing progressive modernization, banks can turn isolated data into fluid intelligence, and secure a massive margin multiplier.
    Jody Bhagat, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Six months later, human remains were discovered on Nunivak Island, an isolated island located in the Bering Sea, but were never identified, Austin McDaniel, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, told the outlet.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Violence against women Memese said that although apartheid ended in 1994 and South African women are no longer restricted from moving, working or participating in society, gender violence can still deny them freedom.
    Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Prior to the new ruling, current state law restricted electronically generated court transcripts to civil suits involving less than $35,000 and disallowed their use for unlimited civil cases and family and probate matters.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026

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