isolate
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"She started to isolate herself, she would shut herself in her bedroom and refuse to come out, and she wasn't engaging in conversation," she said.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
The WHO says passengers are being asked to isolate in their cabins while disinfection and other measures are being taken.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
“Islands within islands, within islands, within islands,” Ella says about the men’s instinct for loneliness, their compulsion to isolate themselves ever further.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
South Carolina has reported around 670 cases of the virus that have forced hundreds to quarantine or isolate.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 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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