isolate

Example Sentences

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At the time of Ethan's death, the university said it was confident that the error with his marks was an isolated one and "no other students have been affected".

From BBC

Until now, these signals were widely thought to come from single, isolated stars.

From Science Daily

"As we carry out repairs there is a chance that customers could experience temporary outages as the team isolate areas of the network to make them safe to restore," a spokesperson said.

From BBC

Sadly, what happened to us was not an isolated incident.

From BBC

She then isolated a “shock” to child care prices — an event, unrelated to something like a recession or a spike in inflation, that made the cost of care go either up or down.

From Salon