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lockdown
noun as in solitary confinement
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Many people have found it easier than expected and a real lifeline in lockdown.
Covid-19-induced lockdowns were expected to take a toll on India’s economy, like anywhere else.
Now the PPP funds have run out, and we’re well into month six of a lockdown that doesn’t show signs of ending anytime soon.
Emissions plummeted worldwide when countries went into lockdown in the spring, and cities have since been implementing new measures to keep pollution down and get people to be more active and environmentally conscious.
A nationwide lockdown plunged the economy into its worst recession since World War Two and activity isn’t expected to return to pre-crisis levels until the end of next year at the earliest.
Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.
When it hits your city, be ready to lockdown your house and banish outside family members, they seem to suggest.
Police put the school in lockdown and searched the classrooms and lockers, with no result.
But thanks to the security lockdown, the project proved more difficult than the band expected.
How did Noujaim get her cameras into a country in the middle of a military lockdown?
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lockdown, such as: holding cell, isolation, solitary, and the hole.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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