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contain

[kuhn-teyn] / kənˈteɪn /




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About 10 North Koreans crowded into a two-bedroom dormitory space containing little more than bunk beds and computers.

From The Wall Street Journal

A secondary school in Derby recently announced it will ditch its traditional uniform of a shirt, blazer and tie - in favour of a black all-weather jacket and polo shirt containing the school crest.

From BBC

"It's so difficult to contain them when they're that confident and don't feel that anything is going to go wrong for them."

From BBC

They also read serialized fiction in newspapers or magazines, as well as “story papers”—weekly magazines containing serial adventure stories and other fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Other times, the quantities were displayed as groups of dots, requiring the child to quickly estimate which group contained more items.

From Science Daily