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self-enclosed

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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 a sign of a vision that fails to look up to the sky and flees the vast horizons of fraternity, becoming instead self-enclosed and concerned with its own interests alone.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

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

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

End-credits teasers aside, the story here feels appreciably and even radically self-enclosed, and if its sense of finality turns out to be an illusion, it feels real and moving enough in the moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2023

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