isolate

Example Sentences

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That process allowed scientists to isolate only a few cells at a time for further study.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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

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

So he often speaks, frank yet cautious, ironic, as if always aware that I see and judge as an alien: a singular awareness in one of so isolate a race and so high a rank.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin