self-isolate
Americanverb (used without object)
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Some of them will stay in quarantine facilities at the port, while others will self-isolate at home.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Rotterdam port harbour master René de Vries said 25 mobile homes kitted out with catering and satellite communications would be available for the crew to self-isolate in.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
Arguably the world’s most self-isolated nation, it is plagued by poverty and malnutrition, and is notorious for its lack of basic human rights and freedoms.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
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
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
Heatlie said that since testing positive for the coronavirus on Aug. 28, he has self-isolated and that he will not have human contact until he gets a clean bill of health and tests negative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Her feelings were very frankly expressed, as she stepped across to the self-isolated rebel and kissed her.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
Meanwhile two Britons are voluntarily self-isolating at home in the UK, having disembarked the vessel at St Helena on 24 April alongside dozens of other passengers before the first case of hantavirus was confirmed.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
His wife is self-isolating, according to the Ocean Expeditions spokesperson.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
But he also became self-indulgent and self-isolating, assisted by a poorly paid helper, Isabel Lyon, who took over most aspects of his life, an arrangement that was a prescription for disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Meanwhile, Mr Biden has endured a difficult week, and is currently self-isolating with a bout of Covid-19.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
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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