as in confined
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
Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The dog was quarantined by the Windsor Lock Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The two quarantined together through the COVID-19 pandemic and have been going strong since.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The dog was quarantined by the Windsor Lock Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined
Verb
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Once considered an illness confined to Central and South America, Chagas disease is increasingly being recognized as an endemic condition within the United States.—
Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the study argues, recent extinctions of plant and animal groups are rare and often confined to island habitats.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Though, with modular parts, the arms and seats can be separated to make moving easier.—
Zoë Sessums,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
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The two, who share three children, separated in July 2021 and finalized their divorce in September 2022.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Yet, the issue of segregated neighborhoods, and with them educational inequality, persisted.—
Time,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the city's reckoning with its segregated past was just beginning.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Witt — who started at shortstop — was removed from the game with low-back spasms.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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An ugly sweep at the hands of the Pittsburgh Pirates sunk their struggling offense to new depths and at least temporarily removed Will Smith from the equation.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That sentiment is front and center in The Fence, a sequestered and highly theatrical drama set on an African construction site that feels much more like a colonial outpost.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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From January 2015 until August 2016, Cawthorn interned for Meadows.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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In fact, many of the technical experts working on eVTOL in the Bay Area either previously worked at or interned in the NASA or Army rotorcraft R&D groups at Moffett Field.—
Mike Hirschberg,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This allows bitBiome researchers to identify novel genes to insert into a standard laboratory protein-production organism and generate samples of potentially interesting new versions of the enzymes or proteins encoded by the isolated gene sequences.—
Steven Savage,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, opens with a truck speeding off after having deposited the body of a teenage girl dressed in a school uniform on an isolated desert peak.—
Beandrea July,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Official badges and patches are supposed to be restricted, but counterfeit versions are readily available.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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That changed recently when the FDA restricted the vaccine for those 65 years of age and older, or for younger individuals six months of age and older with an underlying condition that would put them at high risk for severe Covid infection.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Quarantined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantined. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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