self-isolate
Americanverb (used without object)
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There, they will be quarantined for 72 hours and given a full assessment, before being sent home to self-isolate for 45 days, France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
A UK health official has said that British passengers who were on MV Hondius will likely be asked to self-isolate for 45 days on returning to the country.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Two people who returned to the UK from the ship have been advised to self-isolate, the UK Health Security Agency said, adding they were asymptomatic and insisting the risk to the public was "very low".
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
To be safe, he and his cameraman decided to self-isolate, he told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
He said the chancellor was particularly worried about creating "perverse intensives" which might have increased the risks of fraud, or meant some workers could be paid more to self-isolate than in wages.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
Instead of having fun and meeting new people, the freshmen have self-isolated, continuing long-distance relationships that stifle them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
Katsushika Hokusai, like all subjects in self-isolated Edo Japan, could not have left the archipelago if he wanted to, and his publishers could not export his prints of Kabuki actors, flowers and Mount Fuji.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
He said both Parolin, 67, an Italian, and Pena Parra, 61, who is Venezuelan, had self-isolated in their residences in the Vatican.
From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2022
Mr Johnson self-isolated last July after coming into close contact with Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who had tested positive.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2022
He glanced up to the Yazoo couple and then to the bishop self-isolated near the sick-room door.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
His wife is self-isolating, according to the Ocean Expeditions spokesperson.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
I am surprised and quite troubled about how many young people are self-isolating still and partly because it’s uncomfortable to go to a networking event or go out there and try to meet somebody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
Ranger Sophia Jackson said the birds' self-isolating behaviours meant they had "weathered this particular storm".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
He says he enjoyed the game when he was younger and when he was self-isolating with Covid-19, he began playing the videogames again to keep busy.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2023
In such a state of society—a state of nature—and in its supreme form, the family, there is no adequate principle which though real shall still give ideality and unity to the self-isolating aspects of life.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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