as in to confine
to keep (a person or animal) away from others to prevent a disease from spreading
The hospital quarantined the infected patients. The dog was immediately quarantined.
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as in isolation
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Recent Examples of quarantine
Dr. Mitchell Katz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025
The smell of rotten eggs, from when officials carted her off to quarantine without letting her refrigerate her groceries, is long gone.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2025
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
The 2014 outbreak in Liberia showed that quarantine was not enough.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Test & Trace additionally created a Hotel Isolation program that helped more than 33,000 people safely quarantine or recover from COVID-19.
—Dr. Mitchell Katz, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2025
The smell of rotten eggs, from when officials carted her off to quarantine without letting her refrigerate her groceries, is long gone.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
The shelter had initially placed Sarge in quarantine to monitor for rabies, as experts warned that a sudden behavioral shift might be linked to the disease.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
The 2014 outbreak in Liberia showed that quarantine was not enough.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantine
Verb
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To be sure, such high school activism wasn’t confined to the war.—
Made by History,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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The auroral glow occurs because of the same basic interaction of solar particles interacting with the planet's atmosphere, but instead of being confined to the north and south poles, Neptune’s auroras are located at the planet’s mid-latitudes — roughly where South America is located on Earth.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The most successful domestic noir and psychological thrillers of recent years have tackled universal anxieties: housing insecurity, financial precarity, isolation in the digital age, the fragility of relationships.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Varley’s grip, her taut observation of nerve-wracking isolation, loosens and the film devolves into a blunt and clichéd consideration of family.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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They were also barred from installing any software on SSA devices and ordered to remove any such software installed since the beginning of the Trump administration.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Each of those originals have offensive depictions of non-white characters (like the Siamese cats in Lady and the crows in Dumbo), and each of their 2019 remakes rightfully remove those depictions.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And what that did was show that the legacy of segregation isn't just a literal thing, sometimes it's also seen in something small like our celebrity culture.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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The company identified a material weakness in its internal controls over financial reporting, specifically in the segregation of duties within its cash disbursement control design.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
25 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Davis was already separated from Freddie’s mother at the time.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
23 Mar. 2025
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The couple wed in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2006, and had two sons, Benjamin, born in 2009, and Lincoln, born in 2010, before separating in 2012.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
23 Mar. 2025
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By Thursday, as the red flag warning was active, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told the Miami Herald the blaze was burning 24,000 acres of brush — with 30% containment.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Series two, like its predecessor, suggests that a balanced approach is not about completely isolating work from life, but rather about establishing a dynamic interplay between the two.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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But they won't be isolated in quarantine, as is protocol before space missions get off the ground.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The thick stands of trees flanking long sections provide the illusion of seclusion even when the path passes near neighborhoods.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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Advocates and parents are concerned that school districts are under-reporting their use of seclusion by claiming that sending a student to a calm-down room is not seclusion.—
Melanie Asmar,
The Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Quarantine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantine. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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