isolation
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A marriage story weighty enough to bear two fascinatingly complex couples, it explores a web of isolation and desire knotted with the divisions and woes of society today: class, labor, media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Their earlier research suggests that omega-3s may be more beneficial when consumed as part of a broader dietary pattern rather than taken in isolation as a supplement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The government has additionally designated treatment and isolation facilities across the country, and health workers have been trained to deal with the disease.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Locked away in their quarantine pod, the isolation proved the perfect opportunity to comb through hours of archival footage, stitching a story from B-roll and memories, both of which Eleanor had plenty of.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The need for isolation, the grandiosity of the confabulations, the disorientation and confusion—these were all eerily reminiscent of his uncle’s descent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
It features some bird motion — pecking isolations, swooping flocks.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Doncic won late-game chess matches against the Warriors and Lakers by forcing and then exploiting isolations against Curry and James.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2022
Yet they serve to break down isolations of sympathy, all sorts of physical and intellectual sluggishness and the development of unsocial preoccupations of many sorts.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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Western Europe - Introductory
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