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containment
noun as in control
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in restriction
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Widespread surveillance testing can catch these outbreaks “before they get completely out of hand,” he says, prompting effective scaled-up containment strategies.
Testing for the coronavirus is essential for tracking its spread and knowing when additional containment measures should be put into place.
Chevron installed a large, underground containment system — a channel with perforated drains at either end — and added devices called tilt meters to record any sudden shifts in formations beneath the surface to give warning above.
Second and third waves of the virus have underscored the limits of low-tech containment strategies like face masks and social distancing and bolstered the need for a vaccine.
It’s very obvious that Japan on the one side of the Pacific and India on the other side…If you have close relations between those two countries, you’ve got a pretty powerful containment mechanism that kicks into place.
The UK, too, is now an active player in the containment mission.
Frieden, who weeks ago claimed the “window was closing” on Ebola containment efforts, reaffirmed the need for an urgent response.
If Obama spoke only of containment, John McCain might just have a stroke, and the Sunday shows would have to go off the air.
Kennan was the legendary Cold War strategist who authored the doctrine of containment.
Frieden emphasized that containment will require great care.
Apparently the top management of the joint used these cells for other things than mere containment of unruly prisoners.
For five decades, we have been successful in applying containment and deterrence in the Cold War.
He had been shaken and stirred of late out of all his self-containment; Prudence had heard many things from him.
Ironically, however, the time allocation strategy offered here supports the goal of cost containment.
And the attitude of the Cabinet since August 1914 had been marked by the utmost caution and self-containment.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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