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secluding

verb

present participle of seclude
as in separating
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 secluding Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of secluding himself from the deteriorating realities of his invasion of Ukraine. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 Pulsing green lights flashed, giving fans a glimpse of Cain before secluding her again in shadow. — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secluding
  1. separating
  2. isolating
Verb
  • That means preserving provenance across generations, separating the ability to design a successor from the authority to instantiate it and auditing evaluators as carefully as models.
    — Regan Peng, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Software will be as important as the aircraft The Air Force is also separating CCA mission-autonomy software from the aircraft themselves.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of separating
Verb
  • Researchers at a lab at the University of Illinois Chicago have been testing the water for the event for safety, including filtering concentrated bacteria, isolating the DNA, then amplifying it to measure how much is in the water.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Test sober meet-ups without isolating attendees and make sure campaign imagery sells the experience, not the drinking.
    — Sunita Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of isolating

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“Secluding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secluding. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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