containment
Example Sentences
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After last week's scenes, Spain has installed floating barriers between Ceuta and Morocco, which could "legally enable" returns at the border if they are deemed elements of containment, said the lawyers Benitez and Perez.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The fires had collectively charred some 8,000 acres Monday afternoon with 0% containment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It simply does better with a little containment.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anthropic revealed on Friday that it only realised their bot had escaped it's containment system and hacked the organisations after doing a review prompted by the recent OpenAI incident.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
I blinked and blinked because I didn’t want Babou to witness my stress hormones build up to a containment breach.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Vocabulary lists containing containment
American History III
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"The Witch Boy" by Molly Knox Ostertag
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Chapter 28: The Cold War Era
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