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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 quarantined
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
Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
Officials said it was taken to the Huron Valley Humane Society to be quarantined.
—Nick Lentz, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Chicago police sources said he was being quarantined for something that's suspected to be contagious, possibly Tuberculosis.
—Adam Sabes , Cb Cotton, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
During the pandemic, the Navy essentially quarantined ships by keeping them at sea, with multiple ships remaining deployed for roughly 10 and 11 months.
—Steve Walsh, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
Everyone in that cafeteria is then rounded up by billionaire Byron Forst’s Corporation and quarantined in a kind of secret prison so that their transformations can be observed.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
The lawsuit claims that a sheriff deputy was working both a unit where an inmate with COVID-19 was quarantined and his unit.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Mar. 2026
The properties have been quarantined and the birds will be depopulated to prevent further disease spread, according to news releases from the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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
One of the flash points in women’s college basketball history unfolded during the 2021 NCAA tournament, when all teams were quarantined in the same bubble in San Antonio for all rounds during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
Officials said it was taken to the Huron Valley Humane Society to be quarantined.
—Nick Lentz, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Chicago police sources said he was being quarantined for something that's suspected to be contagious, possibly Tuberculosis.
—Adam Sabes , Cb Cotton, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
During the pandemic, the Navy essentially quarantined ships by keeping them at sea, with multiple ships remaining deployed for roughly 10 and 11 months.
—Steve Walsh, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
Everyone in that cafeteria is then rounded up by billionaire Byron Forst’s Corporation and quarantined in a kind of secret prison so that their transformations can be observed.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
The lawsuit claims that a sheriff deputy was working both a unit where an inmate with COVID-19 was quarantined and his unit.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Mar. 2026
The properties have been quarantined and the birds will be depopulated to prevent further disease spread, according to news releases from the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined
Adjective
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He got separated, then un-separated, then his wife gave birth during a car crash, then his wife blew up.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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The collaboration aims to create a recycling system at MP Materials' Mountain Pass refinery, where MP Materials will recycle end-of-life and other magnet materials to make separated oxides.—
Brit McCandless Farmer,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Nathan learned about the fate of a great-aunt, who was confined at Theresienstadt, and her grandson, who by a circuitous, ultimately tragic path is remembered by Catholics as a martyr.—
Jackie Hajdenberg,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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The debate is not confined to Britain.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou.—
Jesmyn Ward,
Vanity Fair,
21 Apr. 2026
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In 1912, Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, approached Rosenwald with an idea to build schools for Black children in the segregated South.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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Her clothes had been ready to be removed for about four hours.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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By November, the agency removed the warning and, unsurprisingly, once word got out that the treatment wasn’t only safe but also beneficial, demand surged.—
Tabitha Britt,
Flow Space,
22 Apr. 2026
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The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Feb. 2026
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In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Among them are the New Yorker writer Emily Hahn, who was living in Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, and Donald Hasuike, a fourteen-year-old Japanese American who was interned at a camp in Colorado with family before being shipped to Japan against his will.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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University records show Hunt interned on Capitol Hill for a Democratic senator while Porter was in the House.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The showers will be light to moderate at times, with an isolated rumble of thunder mixed in.—
Matthew Villafane,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Medi-Cal debacle was not an isolated case but rather illustrates the eagerness of California’s politicians to make far-reaching declarations and commitments without fully exploring potential consequences.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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With such a focus on what’s happening inside Robby’s head, an already claustrophobic show stuck inside the boundaries of a single set on a single day has gotten even more restricted.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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In 2021, California restricted the use of less lethal munitions until alternatives to force have been tried to control a crowd.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Quarantined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantined. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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