insular

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“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

Inside the company, they’ve been both a source of pride for their creative genius and frustration due to their insular culture and budget-busting spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 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

Growing concerns about physical safety and political marginalization are prompting California’s Jewish community to withdraw from civic engagement and embrace more insular communal structures, particularly among Orthodox populations who face fewer barriers to community cohesion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 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