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quarantined

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verb

past tense of quarantine

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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
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 National Association of State Health Veterinarians says all unvaccinated dogs and cats exposed to a rabid animal need to be quarantined for four months and vaccinated one month before being released. Dan Raby, CBS News, 13 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
  • Invasive plants threatening wildlife and recreation isn’t new in the area, but typically it’s been confined to lakes.
    John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026
  • Wellness here is not confined to the spa; it is woven throughout the stay.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 31 July 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
  • Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • In fact, the film’s story would still be comprehensible if its few subtitles were removed (one of Murnau’s earlier silents — 1924’s The Last Laugh — has no titles whatsoever).
    Tim Page, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 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
  • One of our young people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, interned at a company in their risk management department.
    Byron V. Garrett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Truell, a New York City native, interned at Google, while Sanger, a member of MIT’s squash team, interned at Bridgewater Associates.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • Wilson’s one-out strikeout in the bottom of the ninth in an at-bat that could have scored the winning run with a fly ball or grounder up the middle was an especially costly mistake, though not an isolated one, as the A’s struck out 14 times total.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
  • The company disclosed last week that a combination of its artificial intelligence models escaped an isolated testing environment that had very limited internet access.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Automobiles did not transform transportation while restricted to a single factory fleet.
    Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • There’s no evidence that Bowie knives were commonly used for lawful purposes before they were restricted, the court said.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 26 July 2026

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“Quarantined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantined. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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