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self-contained
adjective as in independent
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They can do this because they believe they operate in self-contained worlds unto themselves.
The three episodes will be a self-contained arc ending at Prom Night and will serve as a prologue for the rest of the series.
At its peak The Farm had 1,500 members; it was a self-contained world with its own school, farm, midwives and social tenets.
The acting exists in a self-contained bubble of Phoenix yelling at Hoffman and Hoffman yelling at Phoenix, and more yelling.
Each of Baker's paragraphs also seem to exist in a self-contained platform.
A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.
"Lovers" would serve better, but is perhaps too expansive to be used of a self-contained race.
She could scarcely reconcile this acute, self-contained man with the enthusiast and comedian she had seen in the Cure's garden.
Quiet and reserved he always was, a self-contained child whose only friend was his mother.
He watched her as she went about her work, silent, self-contained and solitary.
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On this page you'll find 328 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self contained, such as: autonomous, nonpartisan, self-reliant, self-sufficient, separate, and sovereign.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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