lockdown
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, no lockdown zones were established in the areas where the first cases were recorded in late summer of 2024, and critics say that the state veterinary service is significantly understaffed.
From BBC
The pandemic and lockdowns revealed which workers were “essential”—including healthcare workers, grocery clerks, delivery drivers, meatpacking workers.
In 2020, lockdowns showed how bad such a selling spiral can be, and the Federal Reserve was forced to buy more than $1 trillion of bonds to stabilize the market.
The pandemic and lockdowns upended countless aspects of the way many of us perform our jobs, including what we should wear while doing so.
As emergency vehicles swarmed the area, the White House, located a few blocks from where the attack took place, and several embassies in the area went into lockdown.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
