containment
Example Sentences
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The blaze was 5% contained Monday evening, with containment lines focused on the western edge of the fire nearest to PCH, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
After last week's scenes, Spain has installed floating barriers between Ceuta and Morocco, which could "legally enable" returns at the border if they are deemed elements of containment, said the lawyers Benitez and Perez.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
It simply does better with a little containment.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anthropic revealed on Friday that it only realised their bot had escaped it's containment system and hacked the organisations after doing a review prompted by the recent OpenAI incident.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing containment
American History III
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"The Witch Boy" by Molly Knox Ostertag
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Chapter 28: The Cold War Era
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