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- noun Plural form of
confinement .
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Examples
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He would far rather have had this happen when demerit and "confinements" in due proportion had been his award, but there is no use repining.
Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888
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Twenty-seven "confinements", with 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quads.
Latest Articles 2009
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Sub-therapeutic antibiotics promote animal growth and stave off epidemics, a constant problem when animals are crammed into confinements by the thousands.
David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act David Kirby 2011
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Sub-therapeutic antibiotics promote animal growth and stave off epidemics, a constant problem when animals are crammed into confinements by the thousands.
David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act David Kirby 2011
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Sub-therapeutic antibiotics promote animal growth and stave off epidemics, a constant problem when animals are crammed into confinements by the thousands.
David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act David Kirby 2011
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Sub-therapeutic antibiotics promote animal growth and stave off epidemics, a constant problem when animals are crammed into confinements by the thousands.
David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act David Kirby 2011
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The channel also has the competition adventure The Great Escape, from Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and The Amazing Race's Bertram Van Munster, which follows contestants as they break out of different confinements.
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In the 13 months since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision granting detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their confinements before federal judges, most prisoners still have not had their day in court.
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It's the archetypal challenge between cutting edge farming methods that can create a healthy and sustainable agricultural system (that's Thicke, pronounced tick-ee), versus industrial methods that push top soil into our streams, animals into confinements, toxins into our environment, and farmers off the land (that's Northey, pronounced Monsanto).
Jeffrey Smith: The Biggest Election Showdown is WHERE? Jeffrey Smith 2010
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Sub-therapeutic antibiotics promote animal growth and stave off epidemics, a constant problem when animals are crammed into confinements by the thousands.
David Kirby: Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act David Kirby 2011
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