isolate
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Aggregate figures cannot isolate Maia’s contribution, so management’s explanation of infrastructure costs and product mix will matter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rights group Amnesty International urged countries to "resist" the move, saying the sanctions were "designed to isolate and ultimately destroy" the court.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
By keeping their diets identical, the researchers could more clearly isolate the effects of exercise.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
We could isolate someone and keep everyone else uninfected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Here, already, he moves to isolate Catiline from “everyone”— “the people, ” “allgood men, ” “this venerable body”—and to present his arrogance as so contrary to common sense as to be bewildering and unnatural.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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I tried to make the point, when I began the book, that the people who were involved with chatbots were social isolates.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
While Mr. Graham-Dixon isolates the technical from the theological, Mr. Weber integrated the “optical and iconographic” aspects of Vermeer’s life and work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The latest research isolates the role of CSE itself.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026
Using an SPV, he said, not only keeps the debt separate but also isolates the risk of a particular project.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025
This isolates the bedroom, with me in it, from the rest of the rover.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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"Our results show that eastern and western European populations were not as genetically isolated as previously assumed," says first author Pere Gelabert, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Two suspected cases were identified in Nigeria on Saturday, its disease control centre said, adding that the individuals have been isolated and they are undergoing testing.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
In its lawsuit filed in a federal court in Tennessee, the FTC joined states including Alabama, Arizona and New Jersey to allege “pervasive and systemic pricing inaccuracies, rather than isolated or accidental errors.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Storms will start to arrive Friday, with stray showers in isolated areas and maximum temperatures 5 to 10 degrees below normal, according to the forecast from the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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One major hurdle lies in the economical separation of materials, isolating, grinding up and converting rare earth elements into metal for next-generation magnets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
MarketWatch looked at isolating just the days when oil prices rose a lot to see its effect on stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Backed by child protection groups, Marquetty unsuccessfully opposed the closed-door proceedings, arguing that it was "paradoxical" for a defendant accused of isolating his victims to be tried behind closed doors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Fox treated the disclosure as a fireable offense, cutting Bartiromo loose after over 12 years, isolating her from her own staff in her final weeks and firing her executive producer alongside her.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
But Úrsula, just to be safe, took the precaution of isolating Rebeca from the other children.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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