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lockdown

noun as in solitary confinement

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Psychologists attribute the dazed look to excessive screen time stunting the development of social skills, which was exacerbated by the pandemic lockdowns.

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Trapped inside during lockdown, our boys were desperate for athletics of any kind.

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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse was a lockdown sensation, and in 2021 it was named the biggest selling adult hardback of all time in the UK.

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Some hospitals were put in "lockdown" as a precautionary measure.

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Baroness Longfield said the 2021 closure would have been avoidable with better planning, but says the government did not use the time over the previous summer to prepare for a future lockdown.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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