The word "contain" is correct and usable in written English. It can be used to mean to include something, or to have inside. For example, "This jar contains small round candies.".
Tony Abbott is holding firm against calls to send Australian medical experts to west Africa to help contain the Ebola virus, saying that other countries have yet to give firm commitments to assist in evacuations.
An insufficient number of police were deployed to Mare Street and Clarence Road, offering futile attempts to contain the anger of a vast number of youths, the source of which remains unknown.
OH Idea: Breeding sweet potatoes to contain betacarotene, to help in the fight against childhood blindness.
Plibersek said many Australian health experts were willing to go to the region to help contain the virus but the government was "not assisting them or facilitating that in any serious way".
Greece is on the frontline of the effort to contain and cope with the wave of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from the Middle East and north Africa.
The journals that contain them are school exercise books decorated with a collage of old product labels, cocktail recipes and advertisements for patent medicines.
I had grown up with her pictures and was in awe of her, and also taken aback by the mismatch between the soft, deep, clear beauty of her black-and-white photos that contain every shade and grain of grey and the unassuming, unadorned figure she cut.
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