insular
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“It’s kind of an investor mind-set—you see failure everywhere all of the time, whereas maybe inside a firm you can have an insular view.”
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Today many industry players produce “forever games” like “Minecraft” or “Fortnite,” in which the goal is to lock the player into an insular but endless competition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
From a scientific perspective, warm social contact activates specialised C-tactile afferents and temperature-sensitive pathways that send signals to the insular cortex.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
"There shouldn't be any reason for anyone to get individual or insular about what they want to do this week," said Stokes.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
They helped explain why the community could grow so close, the families in the cities so interdependent, and their ideas in some ways so insular.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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