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kənˈteɪndcon·tained

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. containedadjective

    gotten under control

    "the oil spill is contained"

Wiktionary

  1. containedadjective

    Restricted in space.

    The brush fire is now contained, if it doesn't jump the lines it will burn itself out.

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  1. contained

    Contained generally means being held or enclosed within something else. It refers to something that is kept under control or within limits, or an item or items that are included within a particular boundary, space, or category.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Contained

    of Contain

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'contained' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2078

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'contained' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4669

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of contained in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of contained in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of contained in a Sentence

  1. Richard Rapoza:

    The summit itself is fairly stable, with continued seismic activity and a high likelihood of additional small explosions, the lava flow is contained within a channel flowing to the ocean with only minor outflows.

  2. White House:

    Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok andLisa Pagein 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday refer to then-candidate Donald Trump as a ‘loathsome human’ and ‘an idiot.’ More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content. The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign and contain discussions about various candidates. … House Intelligence Committee investigators have long regarded Strzok as a key figure in the chain of events that began when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the election that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate.

  3. Hannes Schroeder:

    Our ancestors lived in a different environment and had a different lifestyle and diet, and it is therefore interesting to find out how this is reflected in their microbiome,' it can help us understand how pathogens have evolved and spread over time, and what makes them particularly virulent in a given environment. At the same time, it may help predict how a pathogen will behave in the future, and how it might be contained or eradicated.

  4. Pete Werner:

    It's a self-contained city.

  5. Craig Robinson:

    Evangelical voters are looking for a thoughtful leader at a time like this, not someone who is simply an agitator, it's the next battle, the preservation of the free exercise clause contained in the First Amendment, that they need to be concerned with.

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