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confinement

[kuhn-fahyn-muhnt] / kənˈfaɪn mənt /


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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

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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