as in imprisoned
taken and held prisoner
confined citizens have basic rights under that nation's constitution
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as in restricted
to set bounds or an upper limit for
will confine my remarks to the subject we came here to discuss
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as in jailed
to put in or as if in prison
the accused was confined until the trial could take place
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Recent Examples of confined
Gladys Carrión, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
In a confined world of discipline, a girl’s quiet longing unfolds through a box of chocolate, where desire and control begin to dissolve.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026
Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Yakusho had also departed, and spent a day confined to his Paris hotel room trying to secure a flight back.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
New York State now has six months to develop a plan to comply with a recent class action settlement addressing the lack of adequate mental health services for confined youth.
—Gladys Carrión, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
In a confined world of discipline, a girl’s quiet longing unfolds through a box of chocolate, where desire and control begin to dissolve.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
Republicans in particular say so, but this is not confined to their views.
—Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Yakusho had also departed, and spent a day confined to his Paris hotel room trying to secure a flight back.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confined
Adjective
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Yenisey Taboada’s small apartment in Havana is filled with photos of her imprisoned son, Duannis Tabaoda.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
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In the play’s penultimate scene — one of the most gorgeous, daring and breathless in American theater, and all taking place in an imprisoned Gallimard’s imagination — Song strips for Gallimard, trying to force him to confront the truth.—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In January, the company restricted its chat feature to users who completed its age-check verification.—
Lola Murti,
CNBC,
1 May 2026
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His ride-hailing service, E-Z Pedicabs, was barred from traveling there by a city ordinance that restricted certain kinds of transportation in the area.—
Dylan Lysen
May 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
Verb
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Lil Tjay was briefly jailed on suspicion of misdemeanor disorderly conduct-affray before he was released on $500 bond.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Nick Reiner, 32, who remains jailed without bail, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charges against him.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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One theory for how the disease is spread is through captive cervid farms that house deer, elk, or moose in large quantities.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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However, thanks to efforts to reintroduce captive piping plovers into the wild and conserve their natural habitat, their local numbers have seen a resurgence.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Trump’s first term was marked—and, in the view of those closest to him, limited—by its dependence on Administration officials who were, at best, skeptical of his aims.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Joining Nixon are returners Quentin Hatch, Aymeric Koumba, Anthony Coaxum and Edwards, who is battling back from an injury that limited him to just six games last season.—
Matt Murschel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2026
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More than two dozen EBC students interned last summer with the public schools as teacher aides.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Among them are the New Yorker writer Emily Hahn, who was living in Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, and Donald Hasuike, a fourteen-year-old Japanese American who was interned at a camp in Colorado with family before being shipped to Japan against his will.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The remaining two suspects, Perry Wayne Taylor, 64, and Carlos Cooper, 64, both of Covington, were already incarcerated by the Louisiana Department of Corrections on unrelated charges and made contact with detectives on April 22.—
Francie Ebert,
NBC news,
25 Apr. 2026
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Lee was incarcerated once more.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Confined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confined. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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