quarantining

verb

present participle of quarantine
as in removing
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 quarantining Raff said that the odds are low the screwworm will end up in North Carolina, but monitoring and quarantining infected animals is essential to stop a spread. — Eva Flowe june 12, Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2026 For now, officials will be relying on restricting imports of livestock from infested areas and quarantining cattle. — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 The passengers had been quarantining in Nebraska since leaving the ship May 10. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 2 June 2026 On Friday, the New York State Department of Health said two New Yorkers who were quarantining in Nebraska are returning to the state this week. — ABC News, 1 June 2026 His wife and four children are quarantining in Germany, and another doctor is quarantining in the Czech Republic. — Sara G. Miller, NBC news, 28 May 2026 Third, the hantavirus outbreak is considered contained, unlike the early spread of COVID; the people most at risk of hantavirus are quarantining and being monitored. — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 May 2026 In the coming days, some may be able to continue quarantining at home, according to Fitter. — Pien Huang, NPR, 15 May 2026 Some of the American passengers on the ship are quarantining in Nebraska and Georgia. — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantining
  1. removing
  2. separating
  3. confining
  4. isolating
  5. restricting
  6. restraining
  7. segregating
  8. jailing
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  • Once in the proper gear, Adams recommends removing the top two inches of topsoil from gardens, where the highest concentration of contaminants will settle after a fire.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • At one point, he was seen removing his shirt to wipe tears from his eyes.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Definition of removing
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  • First, structure prompts by separating roles, rules, data, and tasks into distinct sections for clarity.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • His skin fell off, the membranes separating his organs dissolved, his bones turned to mush, and his head rolled away.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of separating
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  • Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • The requirement to add wheels increases costs and can limit where these homes are allowed, due to zoning restrictions, often confining them to mobile home parks.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Definition of confining
Verb
  • It’s designed to focus on facial features, isolating every muscle.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • According to his lawsuit, Lines meanwhile lost sleep, and began isolating from his friends and family.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 2 July 2026
Definition of isolating
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  • Similar proposals have emerged elsewhere, including a Florida law restricting surrogacy and adoption agreements involving residents of countries designated as foreign adversaries.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • Tweet also questions whether restricting domestic production would reduce consumer demand.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of restricting
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  • In California…there has been little success in restraining these abuses over the past decade.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 5 July 2026
  • The pilot was then notified and the area surrounding Noble was cleared of passengers so that other flight attendants could assist in restraining him.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Definition of restraining
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  • The organizers refused to stop at cities that insisted on segregating crowds.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up.
    — John O’Hara, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of segregating
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  • Also contentious was last year’s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain.
    — Chandra Asmara, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Officials have said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of jailing

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