self-contained
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Mr. Fiennes doesn’t slot his writers into self-contained chapters, but holds “a rolling conversation” between himself and his subjects as he goes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Planning documents released by the Home Office last week said the MoD Bicester development "aims to be as self-contained as possible with Service Users having access to a range of essential facilities on site".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But there’s also a nostalgia for catalogs as self-contained and curated; a static set of choices rather than pages and pages of search results.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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
For in that case each would still be a self-contained uni-verse, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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