confine

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Quadriplegic and confined to a medicalised portable cabin in the Chinese countryside, 36-year-old Li Xia can only move one finger and one toe, which he uses to manage a high-tech farm.

From Barron's

His case is in many ways similar to others with severe neuromotor disorders, such as British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was confined to a wheelchair and could only communicate through a voice synthesiser.

From Barron's

The interior—small, even a bit confining—is inimitably Honda: serene and understated, quietly purposeful, with tasteful applications of tech and lots of single-purpose switches, including the illuminated centrality of the S+ Shift function button.

From The Wall Street Journal

Historically, those discussions were largely confined to tech regulators, politicians, and those in civil society aggravated by Silicon Valley hegemony and the impact on consumers.

From Barron's

A single event like this, which has already happened once in recorded history, could severely damage global satellite infrastructure and confine humanity to Earth for the foreseeable future.

From Science Daily