self-contained
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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
This year, even Telluride’s usually self-contained movie bubble couldn’t keep out the existential anxieties surrounding AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Hope Jahren, a geobiologist and plant researcher, describes her laboratory as a refuge, a church and a self-contained world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
I had to go alone and I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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