self-isolate
Americanverb (used without object)
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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
Some of them will stay in quarantine facilities at the port, while others will self-isolate at home.
From Barron's ● May 18, 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
To be safe, he and his cameraman decided to self-isolate, he told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
In her evidence, Baroness Harding said the UK spent proportionally "much less than other developed countries enabling disadvantaged people to self-isolate".
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
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
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
The self-titled 'warrior' has been taken to the brink of death by Crohn's disease and, for the past three years, he has effectively self-isolated to ensure he made it to the Tokyo Paralympics.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2021
Was she still self-isolated from her husband's deluge of words?
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
Meanwhile two Britons are voluntarily self-isolating at home in the UK, having disembarked the vessel at St Helena on 24 April before the first case of hantavirus was confirmed.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
It comes as the UK's Health Security Agency said two British people were self-isolating at home in the UK after potential exposure to the virus on the ship.
From BBC ● May 6, 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
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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