confinement
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement following allegations in an NBC News report of his lavish federal prison lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Prolonged confinement can lead animals to pacing, destructive behavior, anxiety, and make it harder to adopt them out, which ultimately could lead to them being euthanized by shelters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
For Clara Schumann, 34 years old and pregnant with her seventh child, her husband’s confinement had an unexpected benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Until now, achieving such intense confinement at this scale had been considered extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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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Bursting through the confinements of movie logic, “It Ends” untrains audiences out of their certainty that every crisis has a solution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Armani took away the restrictions and confinements of stiffer styles that went before him - making men feel sophisticated and women empowered in the workplace.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
And Rikers is not a normal jail — a place of brief confinements pending trials and sentencings.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
Pressed by animal welfare and consumer groups, many food and restaurant companies already have committed to phasing out small confinements for pigs and to buying or producing cage-free eggs.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2022
In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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