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Confined to that revolving chair for hours at a time, it's not surprising you end up revealing more about yourself than your holiday plans.
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Only over the course of centuries was she increasingly confined to the house and was forced to veil herself.
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Although gangs were disproportionately confined to lower-income inner-city sections, fear knew no boundaries citywide.
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Wooded areas are confined to the northwest and northeast of the plateau.
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The solum of a soil is not necessarily confined to the zone of major biological activity.
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Weathering is usually confined to the top few meters of geologic material, because physical, chemical, and biological stresses generally decrease with depth.
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Until recently, the charreada was confined to men but a women's precision equestrian event called the escaramuza is now the tenth and final event in a charreada.
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The tropical storm-force winds were confined to the eastern semicircle of the cyclone.
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The questioning of theism was not confined to abstract concerns in philosophy, but also developed as modern historical consciousness dawned.
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They are received by the governor - the viceroy being confined to bed with malaria - and are given an enthusiastic popular welcome.
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