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quarantine

[kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-] / ˈkwɔr ənˌtin, ˈkwɒr-, ˌkwɔr ənˈtin, ˌkwɒr- /




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Leslie’s expanded as homeowners aggressively upgraded their properties, including pools, as a result of quarantine, pushing the chain past 1,000 stores in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Linkages between financial institutions, derivatives, securitization and market structures create multiple paths that will rapidly transmit shocks, making it difficult to quarantine problems.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

About two weeks before the flight, the Crew-13 astronauts will begin quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Once imported the plants have to go through a government quarantine, before they are planted in a nursery.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Word of the miracle elixir had spread well beyond Manifest before the quarantine began.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

This group’s central experience of the government’s pledge to promote safety and security was instead through its Covid-19 pandemic response: quarantines, social distance and school closings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

To be sure, screwworms can be contained through quarantines, tighter surveillance, and other methods.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

The department said it had also enacted "quarantines, movement controls, and surveillance" in that area.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

“Idaho was the first to implement movement restrictions as well as quarantines of facilities,” Kennedy, the spokesperson, said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024

Farmer strongly believed that quarantines were not an effective strategy for handling AIDS, but the Cuban approach had been far more humane.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the U.S. plans to transport all seven Americans to Germany, where they will likely continue to be quarantined.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Two of the exposed Californians are quarantined at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

In the meantime, he has been regularly communicating with his fiance and family, and he has messaged other passengers also quarantined in Omaha.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

But a top US health official said the 17 American passengers would not necessarily be quarantined.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

When the diagnosis was confirmed, he was forcibly quarantined in a hastily erected tent in a marsh along the Potomac River.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Oceanwide’s Hondius will be cleaned and disinfected in the Netherlands, with crew and staff quarantining, but the company hasn’t planned future sailing cancellations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

In the U.S., some Americans who disembarked earlier in the trip and returned home before the outbreak had been made public are quarantining at home.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Some other countries were only quarantining people from the ship for a few days before telling them to isolate at home, the minister said.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Isolating infected people and quarantining households can stop the virus at the secondary stage.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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