self-isolate
Americanverb (used without object)
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Public health and infectious disease specialists will assess whether the individuals are then able to self-isolate at home for up to 45 days, or whether another location should be arranged.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
After taking the letters, the officer said he contacted Watkins by the in-cell phone and "advised that he should self-isolate in his own cell for the weekend".
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
Around that time the government shifted to a mitigation strategy - advising hand-washing and asking people to work from home if possible and self-isolate if they had a fever or cough.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2023
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
But after receiving her positive result via text she got a train home to Glasgow the following day, despite the fact guidance at the time stated she should have self-isolated for two weeks.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
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 Cable, George Washington
The Swiss national is receiving care and his wife, who was travelling with him, has not shown any symptoms of the virus but is self-isolating as a precaution.
From BBC ● May 11, 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
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
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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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