self-contained
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Naylor runs a not-for-profit called the Bed Bug Foundation and has a research laboratory set up in a self-contained two-bedroom suite in his garden in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Companies are betting they can streamline production and bring down the cost of green fuel by doing everything under one roof, in a self-contained system that runs on renewable power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The movie’s narrative turns are so self-contained that you could know every beat of the film and still be flabbergasted by how it all unfolds.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
He touted a personal virtual machine, for example - essentially a self-contained computer system running inside Meta's cloud, where it says Muse users' data will be stored.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Agent Burger then confronted Joe, who, in the agent’s words, was “very self-contained, sullen and wicked appearing.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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