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isolate

[ahy-suh-layt, ahy-suh-lit, -layt] / ˈaɪ səˌleɪt, ˈaɪ sə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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While the brief looked at a variety of economic outcomes — including employment, wages and general inflation — looking at rental conditions alone can help isolate how housing markets spill over into people’s everyday lives.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It also found staff had not been trained on how to isolate the oxygen supply in the case of an emergency.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The U.S. in recent weeks has been trying to economically isolate Iran, which has raised the risks for any bank or crypto platforms that officials might determine are helping the regime evade the restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Dresser wanted a Dutch door — one where both the top and bottom halves swing open independently — attached to their office space, where they sometimes isolate fosters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The goal was to isolate the Germans, to keep them from even mentioning the words atomic bomb in public.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Each successful mission further isolates Russians at the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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 is how he isolates the true impact of that single switch on the sprawling circuit board.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Seven American aid workers were isolated at the facility in July after returning from Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Or will it shy away from reform to protect its image? This is not an isolated incident."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

This process shows that galaxies are not completely isolated objects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

However, Tesla’s declines aren’t isolated to the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Roger del Moral, another ecologist, remembered a hike he took only four months after the eruption: “… far from any visible vegetation, I discovered an isolated, yet active ant nest.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"They've achieved the military objective of isolating Taiz from Aden, even if they haven't fully taken control of it," Farea Al-Muslimi, a research fellow at the Chatham House think tank, told AFP.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

For the wistful, lovelorn loner, it’s an imperative reminder that being attached at the hip can still be isolating, no matter how much two people think alike.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new campaign called “Operation Economic Outcast” aimed at isolating the Iranian regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The setup made it possible to recreate extreme conditions that ordinary solid materials cannot reach while isolating the effects of particle collisions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Yet geek and nerd culture is continuously denounced as isolating, addictive, and, now, even murderous.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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