confining
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Confining delivery drivers to their homes meant food and medicine could not be transported efficiently to many millions of people who were not allowed outside.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2023
Confining eight of them within a border — an area outlined with tape on the floor — has the flavor of a social experiment.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022
Confining that discretion, and channeling it into evidence-backed decisions calculated to improve public safety and promote fairness, is a critically important part of prosecutorial reform.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2022
Confining himself in that closed room, similar in size to his prison cell, was an early indication of how difficult it would be to adjust to his newfound freedom, Johnson said later.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019
Confining ions in a magnetic field for about one hundred orbits was practical.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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