confinement
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Sadly, confinement isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a capybara who has a run-in with a human.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Light cannot easily be confined into extremely small spaces because the uncertainty principle links its confinement to its wavelength.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
During her earlier confinement, Aung San Suu Kyi's dignified, non-violent resistance won her admirers across Myanmar and around the world, and she famously made speeches to supporters from her family home.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Binderbauer says he sees a pathway to adequate energy confinement and is confident in TAE’s technology and experience building complex machines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
He wrote later to his cousin and good friend William Darwin Fox, “What an awful affair a confinement is: it knocked me up almost as much as it did Emma herself.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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