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A huge wrinkle is that larger cities and metro areas benefit from economies of scale that help insulate them: they can afford dedicated OT security staff and redundant control systems.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

“We have to to be able to manage, we have to be able to insulate as much as we can, and then we have to be able to lead with conversation,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

David Lawrence, of the Centre for British Progress think tank, puts it plainly: we don't tell people to insulate their homes in winter and then skip the radiators.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

More forcefully, her story punctures the idea that wealth or social status can insulate us from humiliation and loss of agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

We're not packed as tightly as we were upon our arrival, but it's ironic—now I wish for that closeness to insulate me from the icy air blowing in.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

She’s looking into options like a cover that insulates the water, hybrid heaters and new electric heating models.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

The cement-maker doesn’t have large-scale operations in the Middle East, and its pivot to sustainable production insulates the company from surging natural-gas prices, Bell adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

The historical record here may show that being a lame duck insulates a Fed chair from political pressures.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

"Investors and global central banks have... favoured gold as their reserve currency of choice, which they believe insulates them from US policy dependence," says Wall.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

They bought a parka made of reindeer skin, because reindeer hair is hollow and insulates well; and the hood was lined with wolverine fur, because that sheds the ice that forms when you breathe.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

I would imagine she knows that no single outcome is guaranteed and there is no way to live a life totally insulated from regret or misstep.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some who want the agency insulated from politics hope that the geeky, introverted Matsumoto is exactly the right type of person to put the perception of political meddling at the agency to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“In addition, the physical nature of these experiences should be insulated from AI disruption relative to other services offerings.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Its walls, made in a Tijuana factory, consist of plywood panels insulated with foam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

As a result, remote India was insulated from the rise of Christianity and the fall of Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries AD.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But Apple’s “go-slow” strategy comes in handy on days when investor concerns about AI overspending flare up, insulating the stock from downturns that hit the semiconductor space.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Myelin acts much like the insulating material around an electrical cable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Legal experts said any claim by Hearn could be complicated by the grand jury indictment against him, which the Justice Department could point to as insulating its decision to bring a prosecution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Having nuclear power could eventually lessen Saudi Arabia's reliance on oil, insulating it from volatilities in the global oil market, said Christopher Russo, an energy expert at the consulting firm Charles River Associates.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Her chicks were under her breast feathers, nestled against her brood patch; her wings were around them like insulating blankets.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George