isolation
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Four years of war and economic isolation have reduced the Russian president to a supplicant in a relationship growing more imbalanced—and at times tense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Researchers examined 12 modifiable dementia risk factors identified by the Lancet Commission on dementia, including hearing loss, depression, physical inactivity, and social isolation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
He said this created a "multi-generational financial and environmental liability", leaving our descendants with years of flood defence maintenance and the "insurmountable challenge of safe, millennia-long, highly radioactive nuclear waste isolation, amid a changing climate".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Madonna looks at a world where “no one wants to go outside,” nodding at the ways the COVID-19 pandemic broadly increased our isolation and made people more fearful of reality and each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
She hadn't been gone more than a few seconds when he felt a great sense of isolation sweep over him.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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File on 4 Investigates the use of internal isolations in secondary schools in England and hears from parents and students who say such techniques are affecting their mental health.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
And though he has only been in isolation 11 times, per Synergy’s data, the Clippers are scoring 1.3 points per such possession, the third-highest average out of 75 players with a minimum of 10 isolations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Because they spent their early teenage years internalizing Spears’s dancing on MTV, the Madrids, who are known for their narrative choreography and staccato isolations, consider themselves “natural extensions of her and her work.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
—An infected person should go into isolations for five days, instead of the previously recommended 10.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
Migrations and isolations will thus tend to fix in the machine variations which sexual union or other influences inaugurate.
From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
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Western Europe - Introductory
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