in isolation
Example Sentences
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While grammar and vocabulary are undeniably important aspects of language learning, they don’t exist in isolation from how people communicate in everyday life.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
He spent three weeks in isolation after catching Ebola while caring for patients in Liberia.
From Slate • May 14, 2026
Meanwhile, a British man with suspected hantavirus on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, is in a stable condition and in isolation.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
A large return in isolation should actually make you suspicious.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
It replaced the manuscript, read more or less in isolation from other texts, with a book which could be consulted in a library, surrounded by competing authorities.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
