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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the confinement" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an instance of imprisonment or a state/condition of confinement. Example: Following the prison breakout, the police searched the area for the escaped convicts while the remaining inmates were put in tighter confinement.
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the confinement
noun
The act of confining or the state of being confined
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Confining women in gilded cages doesn't make the confinement easier or acceptable.
"The confinement is very hard," she said.
This theory explains qualitatively the confinement of quarks to hadrons.
Norwegian whalers said the confinement had been galling.
But on the confinement question, the panel members seemed torn.
Will Billy escape the confinement of working-class life?
The confinement brought protests from the journalists' headquarters here.
Today, he argues, the confinement of blacks continues.
Various states have passed measures to limit the confinement of farm animals.
I have known the prison of depression and the confinement of a hospital.
With his pride and prodigious energy and drive, how did he cope with the confinement?
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