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The phrase "are designed to contain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or function of an object, system, or process that is intended to hold or include something.
Example: "These containers are designed to contain hazardous materials safely and securely."
Alternatives: "are intended to hold" or "are meant to include".
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"These apartments are designed to contain the fire for two hours".
These nodes are designed to contain other nodes.
Troup said that Monday's incident involved eight insulators, which are designed to contain electricity that powers the third rail.
The facilities are designed to contain emissions, and the practice has strong proponents for and against among environmentalists and scientists.
Landfill cap covers are designed to contain fugitive methane emissions and to prevent uncontrolled leachate infiltration.
Viral vaccines are designed to contain live attenuated virus or inactivated virus.
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Every step along the way has been marked by Shell's incompetence- from losing control of its drillship, to the damage of its oil containment dome, which was designed to contain a spill yet was "crushed like a beer can".
The simulated situations were designed to contain ethical dilemmas.
The deal — a hundred pages of technical nuclear and financial minutiae — is designed to contain Tehran's ability to produce a bomb for at least a decade.
The thick, four-layered doors outside the second-floor windows were designed to contain fires and keep them from spreading to neighboring buildings.
At Fukushima, each reactor has shut down and is inside a 20cm-thick steel pressure vessel that is designed to contain a meltdown.
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