isolate

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Researchers can later isolate these tagged cells from living cell populations using techniques such as flow cytometry.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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

Charlotte says she began to isolate herself, until she couldn't even face going to college except to sit exams.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

They weren’t absolutely at the mercy of their merciless climate any longer; a bad harvest would not starve a whole province, or a bad winter isolate every city.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin