insular

Example Sentences

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He is raised to be idle, insular and emotionally repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“It’s kind of an investor mind-set—you see failure everywhere all of the time, whereas maybe inside a firm you can have an insular view.”

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

From a scientific perspective, warm social contact activates specialised C-tactile afferents and temperature-sensitive pathways that send signals to the insular cortex.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026

But the narrative also shines a crucial spotlight on L.A.’s Asian American community and its sometimes insular approach to handling emotional trauma, particularly mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

They helped explain why the community could grow so close, the families in the cities so interdependent, and their ideas in some ways so insular.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel