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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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Recent Examples of quarantining
That meant avoiding close contact with anyone not quarantining alongside them, keeping to just a small circle of colleagues and family members while continuing training activities and reviewing procedures for the upcoming mission.
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Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
In a statement, Bis claimed medical staff were quarantining all detainees that may have come into contact with those infected.
—Laura Romero, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
The four crew members are quarantining at Florida's Kennedy Space Center to avoid contracting any illnesses that would jeopardize a launch.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
The rest of Europe has given up on the virulent disease, quarantining the infected to the British Isles and leaving them to stain England’s green and pleasant land blood red.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
The family of six, quarantining together at home, watched Easter mass from their living room.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
That mission is complicated by the army quarantining the entire class, including Miss Harris, on a base in the center of Hawkins, resulting in an epic showdown between Will and Vecna that ends on a cliffhanger.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Nov. 2025
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the Kiss guitar tech who died from Covid-19 while quarantining on the band’s End of the Road World Tour in 2021 ended Wednesday with an official dismissal by the court.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Contractors working on the project recently completed pouring the foundation for what will provide smaller housing units meant to make quarantining detainees with communicable illnesses safer and easier.
—Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
Miles Doran, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
In a statement, Bis claimed medical staff were quarantining all detainees that may have come into contact with those infected.
—Laura Romero, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
The four crew members are quarantining at Florida's Kennedy Space Center to avoid contracting any illnesses that would jeopardize a launch.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
The rest of Europe has given up on the virulent disease, quarantining the infected to the British Isles and leaving them to stain England’s green and pleasant land blood red.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
The family of six, quarantining together at home, watched Easter mass from their living room.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
That mission is complicated by the army quarantining the entire class, including Miss Harris, on a base in the center of Hawkins, resulting in an epic showdown between Will and Vecna that ends on a cliffhanger.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Nov. 2025
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the Kiss guitar tech who died from Covid-19 while quarantining on the band’s End of the Road World Tour in 2021 ended Wednesday with an official dismissal by the court.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Contractors working on the project recently completed pouring the foundation for what will provide smaller housing units meant to make quarantining detainees with communicable illnesses safer and easier.
—Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantining
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This would be achieved by making the flying experience less like an airplane and more like an automobile, including replacing mechanical control linkages with fly-by-wire systems, even removing the traditional rudder pedals.—
David Szondy
April 25,
New Atlas,
25 Apr. 2026
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Experts recommend removing outdated tags before each trip and using airline apps or tracking devices for better visibility.—
Joey Skladany,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Apr. 2026
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Charles’s timing makes the benefits of separating those roles more obvious.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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The couple sat in a vestibule inside the Aurora immigration detention facility on a Saturday in March, staring at each other through the glass barrier separating the incarcerated from the free.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Apr. 2026
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And a key component of the novel and the show is the setting itself, which is a real impeachment of our mental health system, this history of confining and discarding lives that has spilled out into the streets of America.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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From corrective eye surgery to confining plasma for nuclear fusion research and from entertainment to quickening checkout at supermarkets, lasers are now part of our everyday lives.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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Curated by Our Editors Ultimately, public health workers got control of the outbreak through testing, contact tracing, isolating of sick and exposed individuals and vaccination.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
29 Apr. 2026
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After the initial flattery, the tone shifts to isolating phrases.—
Kathy and Ross Petrass,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2026
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While backing legislation restricting AI use in hiring and education, Pritzker’s administration has implemented internal rules dictating how state employees and contractors may use the technology.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Boston City Council defeated a resolution last month, by a 9-3 vote, that sponsors Ed Flynn and Julia Mejia said sought to uphold state law restricting alcohol at public school facilities.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Today, oil and shipping reporter Weilun Soon says the mayhem in the Persian Gulf doesn’t bode well for both ending the war and restraining crude prices.—
Weilun Soon,
Bloomberg,
20 Apr. 2026
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The security team and members of the church assisted the guard in restraining Mbwavi.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up.—
John O’Hara,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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The city has said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.—
Amethyst Martinez,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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The government shut off the internet, and the military and police cracked down, eventually extinguishing the protests and jailing more than 1,400.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Quarantining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantining. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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