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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
Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
The quarantined students were not vaccinated, officials added.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
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
Ultimately, 87% of subsequent measles cases occurred among people who’d been quarantined, Melnick said.
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
The daily virus testing and the constant prospect of being quarantined had a chilling effect on every form of contact.
—Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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
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
Ultimately, 87% of subsequent measles cases occurred among people who’d been quarantined, Melnick said.
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
Days before, a local private school had quarantined about 100 students after an exposure.
—Andrew Jones, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
The daily virus testing and the constant prospect of being quarantined had a chilling effect on every form of contact.
—Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined
Adjective
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In actuality, washing rice removes excess starch, dust, and debris to ultimately help the grains to be more separated and fluffy, rather than sticky.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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Finally, Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award went to Ah Girl by Ang Geck Geck Priscilla, about a young girl caught in a war between her separated parents.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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But most photonic systems keep light confined within tiny optical waveguides on the chip.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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Not 48 hours earlier, Arenas was confined to his bed, sick with a particularly unforgiving form of the flu.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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By the mid-1950s, more than half a million Americans with disabilities lived in large, segregated facilities, isolated from community life and stripped of choice.—
Jonathon Rondeau,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Mar. 2026
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Jackson grew up in segregated Greenville, South Carolina.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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The paramedics had removed one of the bullets from Martinez’s arm, leaving it behind, along with bloody rags.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
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Bauder admonished the crowd several times for being too noisy, and police removed a protester who yelled vulgar comments.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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Before his project, Saenz interned with the Camp Catanese Foundation, which is a college-preparation program that provides support to underserved and first-generation students.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But some backpacks are better for travel than others, perhaps designed with isolated shoe compartments, holes to feed your phone charging cable through, jewelry pouches, and special materials that simply wipe clean after picking up germs from public floors.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Avoid tall, isolated trees or other elevated objects.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Mar. 2026
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In 2021, the state passed a law that restricted officials’ ability to quarantine students exposed to COVID; measles cases are not subject to such restrictions, but attitudes about the viruses appear to be similar, several researchers told me.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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While the government is prioritizing supply to consumers, the curbs that were brought in after the war broke out have also restricted access for households.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Quarantined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantined. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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