insularity
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The insularity of the “60 Minutes” operation — which has its own suite of offices across the street from the main headquarters of CBS News — has rankled the network’s executives in the past.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Despite their insularity, Thompson’s works offer a reportorial curiosity of the world and a generosity toward working people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
"Such wanton destruction of the German cultural scene, such self-inflicted insularity, must not be allowed to happen," it said.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
For a long time, that insularity protected winning intellectual property.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
He had been born and bred in London, in an atmosphere of lower middle-class insularity and ignorance, from which he had escaped into a wider world by the means of art-classes and night-schools.
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
Vocabulary lists containing insularity
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