as in to confine
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 quarantine
Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has quarantined a Stearns County dairy herd after samples collected as part of the state’s milk surveillance plan tested positive for H5N1, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2025
Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
The Folsom and Clementine program mirrors restrictions adopted across Northern California with boaters wishing to launch having a red quarantine seal for at least 30 days after a mandatory inspection.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Verb
These three additional monkeys were not quarantined, which is required by law to prevent deadly diseases — such as Ebola, Marburg and mpox — from spreading from primates to humans, prosecutors said.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has quarantined a Stearns County dairy herd after samples collected as part of the state’s milk surveillance plan tested positive for H5N1, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
When the reptiles arrived safely in Los Angeles, they were escorted to the zoo’s Jennings Veterinary Hospital for in-depth health assessments and quarantine.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
The Folsom and Clementine program mirrors restrictions adopted across Northern California with boaters wishing to launch having a red quarantine seal for at least 30 days after a mandatory inspection.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantine
Verb
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Dempsey was sent to live with a distant city counselor and grew up to work in data entry, confined to her apartment computer.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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No longer confined to the pursuit of profit alone, these powerful forces are being reimagined as instruments of global healing, capable of restoring trust, dignity and interconnectedness across all sectors.—
Yujia Zhu,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Read: The isolation of intensive parenting Others aren’t as eager to embrace external influences, especially not so close to home.—
Rhaina Cohen,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2025
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The spatial isolation of these colonies would aid humanity’s survival, argues Dr Gee, by allowing genetically distinct human communities to develop that could interbreed with people still living on Earth or elsewhere in space to produce offspring with the best qualities of both groups.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Verb
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Walmart has removed self checkout machines in some locations, including in Shrewbury, Missouri and Cleveland.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Dan Halden, a spokesperson for the city’s Bureau of Street Services, had previously said the city was removing the remaining stumps and evaluating the replacement cost.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Under apartheid, a white minority ruled South Africa for much of the second half of the 20th century, enforcing a system of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhite populations.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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The people who attained refugee status are part of the ethnic minority of Afrikaners, a group of white people of Dutch descent who ruled South Africa during the period of racial segregation known as apartheid.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
15 May 2025
Verb
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Cosmos 482 separated into four pieces, two of which remained in Earth's low orbit and decayed within 48 hours, and the other two pieces went into a higher orbit.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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Let the chicken cool completely before storing it in the fridge, and separate the meat from the bones for easier reheating.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
10 May 2025
Noun
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There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 May 2025
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This policy of containment has persisted ever since, whereby politicians of the right and center-right could at once embrace Head Start and reject the communist temptations of comprehensive child care—and also reject a more generous social safety net over all.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
Verb
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Halfway through the first game the pair switched sides, in reaction to the clear recognition that Agassi was getting isolated.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Whereas a series against a different opponent might have offered a stay in a larger, downtown metropolis, the Leafs decided to be isolated in their hotel from, well, distractions.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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After less than 24 hours of seclusion in the Vatican, cardinals ended the 2025 papal conclave with the election of a new pontiff.—
May 8,
CBS News,
9 May 2025
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At the 2013 conclave, several Cardinals tweeted goodbye messages before going into seclusion.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
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“Quarantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantine. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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