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
The geopolitical bottleneck does not operate in isolation.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 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
Even if we could imagine the act of death in isolation, without any preliminary stage of being struck down by disease, we would be fearful of it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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