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quarantine

noun as in isolation

verb as in isolate

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It ended with Bell bored and alone in quarantine, when the rest of the squad had gone home, having contracted Covid-19.

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The following morning, slightly hungover, a rumour reaches them about some holidaymakers on the island who have fallen ill with a mystery virus and been quarantined in their hotel.

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So I’ve been quarantined in a corner of the house, reaching alternately for Tylenol and the thermometer.

Another wrote: "What's the point of the quarantine? It's not as though an infected patient will then go around biting other people?"

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Ukraine's justice ministry said four bombs hit the Bilenke penitentiary, destroying the dining hall, administrative HQ and quarantine area and that all those killed and wounded were inmates.

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

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