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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quarantine . - adjective In
quarantine ;isolated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective under forced isolation especially for health reasons
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Examples
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In a sense Amazon now has publicly admitted that private clouds do exist and the core differentiation is isolation (what I call quarantined cloud infrastructure), be it virtual or physical.
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Furthermore, the idea that the N-word can be can be effectively quarantined from the English language is, at the present time, absolutely ludicrous.
Akim Reinhardt: The New Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Akim Reinhardt 2011
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I had been deemed a virus and am subject to be quarantined from the system.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Furthermore, the idea that the N-word can be can be effectively quarantined from the English language is, at the present time, absolutely ludicrous.
Akim Reinhardt: The New Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Akim Reinhardt 2011
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These crucial public servants patrol the streets in quarantined neighborhoods, ensuring no one leaves, except in a hearse.
Jobs Of The Future Hannah Clark 2006
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The word quarantined sent a fresh chill to Blue Bonnet's heart.
Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Caroline E. Jacobs 1924
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No Karly, that’s when the government lies to you and spends your tax dollars to promote and execute an illegal invasion of another country, and when citizens try to protest, they’re put in quarantined zones.
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Basket cases need to be quarantined, which is exactly what Israel has done to the Palestinians.
THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS 2009
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If that much it true then I don't think it would be such to leap to assume that our solar system may be "quarantined" because of some "prime directive" thanks, again Star Trek and we may be prevented from being contacted...or we're so backward and violent that more civilized cultures wouldn't be bothered touch us with a ten light-year pole.
VOTD: Neill Blomkamp’s TED Talk: Life On Other Planets and the Future of Human Civilization | /Film 2010
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That sheet has been "quarantined" and will not be considered at all, he added, declining to say which candidate would have benefited.
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