isolate
Example Sentences
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"You have to isolate your muscles and the noise around you... and really focus inward," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Reducing consciousness to information or perception can isolate its functions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 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
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
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