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seclusion

[si-kloo-zhuhn] / sɪˈklu ʒən /


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The Coastal Commission also required the county to stop allowing motorized vehicle access on the sand, infuriating locals who have long ridden onto the beach to go fishing and enjoy the rural seclusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Thoughtfully positioned to embrace its extraordinary surroundings, the home offers an intimate connection to the coastline while maintaining a level of seclusion that is increasingly difficult to find.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Key beaches aren’t necessarily more beautiful than others, said Rabinovitz, but the big draw is their seclusion, quiet and easy parking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The BBC also uncovered documents showing staff did record the use of seclusion for some pupils at Whitefield.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The only living witness to what happened in the restroom at 10:22 a.m. on September 15, 1963, Sarah chose to live in silence and seclusion for many years.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

The report says that programs around the country have reduced restraints and seclusions as well as problem behavior using other strategies to calm students.

From Newsweek ● Feb. 13, 2015

The report outlined 14 recommendations for reducing the number of restraints and seclusions across the state.

From Newsweek ● Feb. 13, 2015

Collecting and publicly reporting the numbers of seclusions and restraints was a good first step, Diaz said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2015

But with the wild rush of change in the pace, scope, materials, scale, and possibilities of human life that then occurred, the old boundaries, the old seclusions and separations were violently broken down.

From The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The Loch in its whole length and breadth—the magnificent expanse unbroken, though bedropped, with unnumbered isles—and the shores diversified with jutting cape and far-shooting peninsula, enclosing sweet separate seclusions, each in itself a loch.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson


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