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confining
noun as in restricting
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Example Sentences
She wonders whether confining a cat on heat would be “restricting them from their natural behaviour”.
In an echo of a chilling Soviet practice of confining dissidents to mental hospitals, the court also ordered her to undergo a compulsory psychiatric evaluation.
At the beginning of the war, prisons entered “lockdown mode,” confining detainees to their cells for two weeks, the report said.
In the blink of an eye, the unruly, superheated plasma that drives a fusion reaction can lose its stability and escape the strong magnetic fields confining it within the donut-shaped fusion reactor.
Lateral arrangements offer a special advantage, confining charge carriers to a single plane and paving the way for exceptional "in-plane" electronic devices.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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