confine
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The sun’s mass makes it a gravity-powered fusion reactor, but on Earth, scientists need other ways to create plasma—a superheated, electrically charged gas—and confine it to force atoms to collide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
A microresonator is a microscopic structure designed to confine light in a small space.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
Furthermore, we’re going to confine those categories very narrowly.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026
The best hope for the Fed, then, is to get inflation low and confine annual price increases to a stable and narrow range.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026
The meetings were addressed by leading ANC members, standholders, tenants, city councillors, and often by Father Huddleston, who ignored police warnings to confine himself to church affairs.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Marbury v. Madison (1803)
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