isolate

Example Sentences

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A workaround was found to isolate the batteries from the vibration, which allowed the car to run for longer.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Military strategists say that in an invasion or blockade of Taiwan, China could isolate the island nation by using mines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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

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