self-contained
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The Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Norwalk in 1916, a self-contained facility complete with its own farm that treated people with mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
A detached four-car garage, accessed via a sweeping motorcourt, completes the property’s self-contained layout.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
Nintendo games, by contrast, tend to be self-contained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
These biochemical reactions occur independently of the ocean above, showing that these microbes operate in a self-contained ecosystem.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025
Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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