isolate
Example Sentences
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"Nothing in and of itself will fix this but these activities will bring prices down. They won't isolate the UK - we're part of a global system - but they will bring prices down."
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
A workaround was found to isolate the batteries from the vibration, which allowed the car to run for longer.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
By adjusting the data to account for these natural factors, the team was able to isolate the underlying warming trend more clearly.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 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
The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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