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containment

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as in isolation

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Recent Examples of containment The remote area lacks infrastructure, making the salvage and containment more challenging and requiring more safety measures, Keskes said. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 The fire had burned 88,421 acres (138 square miles) with 15% containment as of Thursday morning, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 Self-insurance requires oversight that includes both clinical and financial review to achieve true cost containment. — Bruce Roffe, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Crews remained at the scene Tuesday tending to hot spots, shoring up containment lines and monitoring the area for fire activity, said Cal Fire officials in a morning update. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for containment

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Malware installed on a device running macOS, iOS, and Android, for instance, has no ability to defeat this isolation unless the OS itself is compromised through some sort of exotic zero-day exploit.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026
Populations in the Eastern Pacific, Western Atlantic, Eastern Atlantic, and Indo-West Pacific each carried unique genetic signatures, reflecting long periods of genetic isolation.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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Many of the march’s leaders and participants were later imprisoned in the Women’s Jail, where activists were held separately according to their race, as apartheid enforced segregation everywhere in South Africa.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
The history of redlining, segregation and the lack of generational wealth shows how decisions made by the founding fathers created the landscape that exists for Black people in present day.

— Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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