self-contained
Example Sentences
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At elite institutions, students enter a nearly self-contained community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And considering that in “Bottoms” or “Bodies Bodies Bodies” you often were the outrageous character, what has it been like for you to play this character that’s a little more self-contained?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I do think there is something here about the rich just operating in almost a self-contained economy — a cloud city — where they’re all trading money with one another,” said Richards of Groundwork Collaborative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
They will be housed in self-contained flats with access to phones so they can call friends and relatives.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Each of us is a self-contained, free-standing individual, labeled by specific protein configurations at the surfaces of cells, identifiable by whorls of fingertip skin, maybe even by special medleys of fragrance.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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