confine
Example Sentences
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The fan passion isn’t confined to visual offerings, but also tantalizing debates.
From Los Angeles Times
To begin with, certain electrons are confined strictly to the top and bottom surfaces of the crystal.
From Science Daily
It isn’t a phenomenon confined to the fringes.
He has been confined to a small room with a minibar, air conditioning and a television at a Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia.
From Barron's
Jefferson is confined to liquids, sentenced to a kind of culinary purgatory.
From Salon
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