as in to isolate
to set or keep apart from others
the patients will be secluded until they are no longer contagious
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There’s a story that soprano Maria Callas, secluded in her Paris apartment in the months before dying of a heart attack at 53, could be found paging sadly through her clippings.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
In the past five years, Elevations employees have failed to follow mandatory reporting requirements for child abuse, improperly secluded children for days on end and have conducted unauthorized strip searches, according to state records.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024
The cardinals are secluded in hotel-like quarters in the Vatican and sequestered like jurors in newsy trials—insulated from all outside media.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Rivera-Killingsworth’s complaint to the federal Office for Civil Rights claims Caleb was secluded for hours at a time, sometimes as long as three hours in spring 2023.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
In the past five years, Elevations employees have failed to follow mandatory reporting requirements for child abuse, improperly secluded children for days on end and have conducted unauthorized strip searches, according to state records.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024
The cardinals are secluded in hotel-like quarters in the Vatican and sequestered like jurors in newsy trials—insulated from all outside media.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Rivera-Killingsworth’s complaint to the federal Office for Civil Rights claims Caleb was secluded for hours at a time, sometimes as long as three hours in spring 2023.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024
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The Arctic Ocean, nearly isolated from larger oceans by land bridges, became a vast, shallow, nutrient-rich basin.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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This means the elite of El Salvador likely traded in ritualistic traditions and customs across great distances, contradicting previous beliefs that these communities were isolated, according to Antiquity.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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The January Starship mishap occurred over the North Atlantic after the 171-foot (52-meter) Starship separated from the Super Heavy rocket booster that hauled it toward space.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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After Ruby’s arrest, Kevin, who had been separated from his wife for a year, filed for divorce and began seeking to regain custody of his four children.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
27 Feb. 2025
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Schools across the South, too, were racially segregated—and their funding reflected this disparity.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Often referred to as de facto segregation, schools in the North were typically segregated, but not by law.—
Aaron Kupchik,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Seclude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seclude. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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