as in sheltered
screened or sequestered from view
we stayed in a secluded resort, far away from the regular tourist crowds
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as in isolated
to set or keep apart from others
the patients will be secluded until they are no longer contagious
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Recent Examples of secluded
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
16 June 2026
Exuma Point sits on exactly the sort of secluded white-sand beach featured in the promotional video.
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Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
But the time secluded together also helped the couple strengthen their relationship and get to know each other in a deeper way, Nanjiani says, despite being married since 2007.
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Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Spread throughout the globe, these secluded homes are often accompanied with views of near-untouched nature.
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Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
16 June 2026
Exuma Point sits on exactly the sort of secluded white-sand beach featured in the promotional video.
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Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
Verb
The third salon, secluded in the boutique’s rear corner, offers a personalized experience for top clients.
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Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
But the time secluded together also helped the couple strengthen their relationship and get to know each other in a deeper way, Nanjiani says, despite being married since 2007.
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Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secluded
Adjective
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Seek refuge at rest areas or sheltered spots.
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Outside of their sheltered practice area, kids played on a carousel and ran around playing makeshift games of tag.
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Authorities are notably worried about people living in the baking streets, and elderly people in nursing homes or isolated in their homes.
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According to state police, the incident appears isolated and does not present any danger to the public.
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Prosecutors also alleged King fathered a child through an extra-marital affair and threatened the child’s mother to keep quiet.
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But he is viewed by Labour supporters as a more effective, optimistic and plain-speaking communicator than Starmer, who's quiet, lawyerly manner has consistently failed to connect with the public's national mood.
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As the aircraft approached Atlantic City, a portion of one of the main rotor blades separated, the NTSB report showed, tearing the transmission and rotor apart and sending the helicopter crashing onto the Garden State Parkway.
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Watching Bryce Dettloff and Trinity Tatum pine for each other while separated by Casa Amor and realize their feelings for each other while unable to talk was sincerely romantic.
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In the evening, Banff’s newest late-night spot, The Dusty Boot Saloon, channels cowboy country motifs through nostalgic saloon energy and a lively dance hall, stage for live music and hidden lounges.
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Further investigation determined that the videos came from a hidden camera installed in one of the church's changing rooms and bathrooms.
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Rodríguez also said the country’s entire public and private healthcare network had been activated to treat the injured, urging doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to report immediately to their workplaces.
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Delta Air Lines is metro Atlanta's largest private employer.
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But the book’s ruminative watchfulness is unsuccessfully conjugated in this overly sedate play with music, which has the feel of a song cycle, though sung by the fine cast with gorgeous, lonely sorrow.
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One casualty was his lovely Princeton apartment, which never came together, more grad-student than dean in its feel, a lonely refrigerator in the kitchen holding only a cup of iced coffee or a jar of mayonnaise.
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This tends to make remote galaxies extremely faint at those wavelengths.
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City managers and emergency responders should plan for joint ruptures along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults as a realistic possibility with the current stress conditions, not a remote worst-case scenario.
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“Secluded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secluded. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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