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Recent Examples of containment
There is currently no information on the containment or cause of the fire.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
Various approaches to Iran—isolation, containment, engagement, and maximum pressure—have failed to curb the regime’s malign activities.
—Roya Boroumand, Time, 9 July 2025
For more about the challenges of having kill switches and containments for AI and AGI, see my analysis at the link here.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
Various approaches to Iran—isolation, containment, engagement, and maximum pressure—have failed to curb the regime’s malign activities.
—Roya Boroumand, Time, 9 July 2025
For more about the challenges of having kill switches and containments for AI and AGI, see my analysis at the link here.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for containment
Noun
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The lockdown, the isolation were still fresh in everyone's minds, and many of the young people don’t live on the Navajo Nation.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
23 July 2025
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Close to a third lose their job, and the social isolation can be profound.—
April Dembosky,
NPR,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Roy’s Taxi Entrepreneurial opportunities for providing private transportation services in Austin have been shaped largely by segregation, regulation and innovation.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025
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The problems to surmount were structural: deindustrialization, entrenched segregation, economic marginalization—conditions shaped by Jim Crow, but not undone by its eclipse.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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“Containment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/containment. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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