Example Sentences

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The researchers are also hoping to work the sticker into a more portable, self-enclosed version, where all its accompanying electronics and processing is miniaturized to fit into a slightly larger patch.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024

It is unfocused, self-enclosed, directed toward strange things.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

About her hirsute new boyfriend, she writes: “Heist was as unmannerly, as dour and self-enclosed, as an emo guitarist packing in after a poorly attended gig at a bar in Greenpoint.”

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2018

The plants are self-enclosed worlds where employees pass on job referrals so relatives, classmates and longtime friends can work together.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2017

They are very good at creating a self-enclosed world where the criterion for admission is not the Social Register, but money.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times