isolate

Example Sentences

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"Nothing in and of itself will fix this but these activities will bring prices down. They won't isolate the UK - we're part of a global system - but they will bring prices down."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

By adjusting the data to account for these natural factors, the team was able to isolate the underlying warming trend more clearly.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

At their best, sci-fi thought experiments isolate technological shocks, project them forward under different conditions of social and environmental stress, and ask: What breaks first?

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

This could have been an opportunity for Washington to isolate the isolator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

This time, since there had been no human casualties during the first outbreak, the Army, the C.D.C., and Hazleton jointly decided to isolate the monkeys—leave them alone and let the virus bum.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston