self-contained
Example Sentences
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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
By firmly defining these perceptual features, the researchers supply a crucial missing component that helps fulfill Schrödinger's original goal of creating a self-contained model.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
Xi was self-contained, and said only what he had prepared.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
When he found on this first morning back at Devon that it happened still to be crippled and in a cast, he said in his usual self-contained way, “Hand me my crutches, will you?”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.