Example Sentences

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EU officials accept that risks exist but think they are low and containable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

The former may be devastating, but it is usually containable.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

Health crises are never so predictable and containable; they do not progress in linear fashion, with easy off-ramps at every level of endangerment.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2023

Boy Willie is ambitious for a better future, but he’s also rash, reckless and fueled by a barely containable rage.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

What is clear, is that no alarm was recorded at the central alarm office in the Courthouse at the point when the fire was still containable.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy