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confine

verb as in enclose, limit

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Time-travelling to Swift's high school days in Tennessee, it reminisces about a boy she confined to the friend zone while yearning for a single kiss.

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They want to replace it with a more transparent scheme operating within the confines of Nato.

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The detainee, who didn’t want to be identified for fear of retribution, said in response guards confined him in a single-person cell for days.

The microbe's use isn't just confined to the lab.

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"It feels quite surreal to be confined on this floating bubble," she writes.

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