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isolate

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


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Flowers has always been careful to isolate his family from the effects of fame.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

After collecting the cells, the team removes the material from the brushes and uses forensic-level, next-generation sequencing technologies to isolate and amplify genetic sequences.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez criticized calls to isolate Spain, arguing the country’s border controls remain intact and warning against measures that could undermine European unity.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

Then there’s the fact that Nicaraguan migrants in the United States are a smaller and less powerful force than Cuban Americans, many of whom have lobbied Washington for decades to isolate and overthrow Havana’s leaders.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 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

This isolates the ethylene, resulting in a highly pure product.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 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

"We want to build a care system that supports them, not isolates them."

From BBC Aug. 18, 2025

The nucleolus isolates the rDNA which encodes the RNA portions of the ribosomes, the protein-building machinery.

From Science Daily Nov. 25, 2024

For an Aristotelian, there is only one discipline that isolates efficient causes and structures and ignores all others, and that discipline is mechanics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

For a time, the internet did put a Band-Aid on this problem, bringing isolated communities together and providing the sort of crosstalk they couldn’t hear on the abandoned sidewalks of gated developments.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

“That was the request, and I honored it. ... He asked me not to share ... and it isolated me in the process.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The post-coup leadership was isolated for five years but has started a diplomatic offensive, touting deeply restricted polls it staged around the start of 2026 as a return to normality.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Losing several state AG cases would make it more difficult for Meta to say the verdicts are isolated incidents and could create significant problems for its business model.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

He did not want to stay in this isolated place.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

For some it can be an isolating experience.

From BBC Aug. 15, 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

“Grief is really isolating, especially child loss, because very few people lose their children,” Ferrante told me, adding that her relationship with the father ended two months after Ysa’s funeral.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

"All these operations, which are intermediate steps pending a more spectacular assault, contribute to weakening and isolating the regime", Bakary Sambe, director of the Dakar-based Timbuktu Institute, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

I thought and thought all afternoon, and I could see that Chester had done a good job of isolating Bunnicula from his food.

From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe




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