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to keep (a person or animal) away from others to prevent a disease from spreading
The hospital quarantined the infected patients. The dog was immediately quarantined.
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Recent Examples of quarantined
Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
The quarantined students were not vaccinated, officials added.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
Michael Russo, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Those exposed to infected people have been quarantined, health officials say, including many from elementary schools.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
An additional three schools have reported exposures but have not yet determined how many students need to be quarantined.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Most of these children were born during the pandemic and spent much of their infancy quarantined indoors, their earliest socialization filtered through the blue light of tablets and television, Aguet said.
—Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Roughly 700 cases have been reported with 485 people quarantined.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
But then Gu quarantined for a few weeks after the Games in the nearly deserted Olympic village.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
More than 400 people in Spartanburg County have caught the measles since October and at least 200 people are currently quarantined, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.
—Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2026
Measles outbreaks spread in US Hundreds of people in the US state of South Carolina have been quarantined over a measles outbreak.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Adjective
The quarantined products include 4-packs of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil and single cans of Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt, both of which were recalled back in February 2025 after the company’s supplier flagged a manufacturing defect on the pull tab.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
The quarantined students were not vaccinated, officials added.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
Thirteen players were quarantined at the athletes’ village after being either stricken by or exposed to the virus.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Those exposed to infected people have been quarantined, health officials say, including many from elementary schools.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
An additional three schools have reported exposures but have not yet determined how many students need to be quarantined.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
Most of these children were born during the pandemic and spent much of their infancy quarantined indoors, their earliest socialization filtered through the blue light of tablets and television, Aguet said.
—Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Roughly 700 cases have been reported with 485 people quarantined.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
But then Gu quarantined for a few weeks after the Games in the nearly deserted Olympic village.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
More than 400 people in Spartanburg County have caught the measles since October and at least 200 people are currently quarantined, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.
—Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2026
Measles outbreaks spread in US Hundreds of people in the US state of South Carolina have been quarantined over a measles outbreak.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarantined
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Finally, Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award went to Ah Girl by Ang Geck Geck Priscilla, about a young girl caught in a war between her separated parents.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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Channing Tatum has undergone surgery for a separated shoulder.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
4 Feb. 2026
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Phones, Tablets, and Connected Devices AI isn’t confined to televisions.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, those vibrations confined to the molecular plane were far less affected.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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The flood of immigrants who settled in the area were a motley crew – clannish Scandinavians, Germans, Irish Catholics escaping famine, Yankees from New England, Black refugees from the segregated South, Mexican workers seeking a better life.—
Harry Boyte,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2026
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Black and white interactions—each coming out of segregated environments—could at times prove a combustible brew for military officers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 2026
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Law enforcement officers had removed the mouth of the irrigation tube diverting water from a nearby creek, but all the piping remained.—
Rachel Becker,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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By Wednesday morning, investigators had left the residence, the scene was cleared, and police tape had been removed.—
Bradford Betz , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Feb. 2026
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In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
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But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.—
Frances Stead Sellers,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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The White House dismissed such concerns, pointing to isolated incidents of noncitizens being charged with illegally voting, and to examples of duplicate registrations, voters remaining on rolls after death and people stealing ballots to vote multiple times.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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The week will remain dry with only isolated shower chances on Friday and Saturday.—
Shane Hinton,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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The technique is banned by statute in at least one state and prohibited or restricted to low-speeds by some police agencies.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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By 1982, the species had been restricted to a single population of just 35 individuals at Epping Forest National Park in Queensland.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Quarantined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarantined. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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