isolate

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Researchers then isolate these synapses and use high-throughput sequencing to read which barcode pairs are found together.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Citizen scientists will then be encouraged to gather sediment from rooftops and gutters and use magnets, sieves, and microscopes provided by the project to isolate potential micrometeorites.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Military strategists say that in an invasion or blockade of Taiwan, China could isolate the island nation by using mines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"We can't isolate the supply, we're dealing with water and live electric, and there are holes cut through floors that firefighters can fall through."

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

All he has done is isolate the question of garlic and magnets from the larger context in which it was normally placed, that of sympathy and antipathy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton