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quarantine

noun as in isolation

verb as in isolate

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And like many others, she didn’t stop once the quarantine lifted.

At the same time, the town is under military quarantine as the hunt for Eleven intensifies.

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The U.S. military, he continued, was going to enforce “a strict quarantine” on Soviet ships headed to Cuba.

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Crew members were quarantined at a hotel, confined to their rooms with food delivery with clean towels and sheets left outside their doors.

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She writes: “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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