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isolate

[ahy-suh-layt, ahy-suh-lit, -layt] / ˈaɪ səˌleɪt, ˈaɪ sə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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"The colleagues from Hanover and I used various methods to isolate the particles from Ukrainian soil samples and attach them to tungsten electrodes," Weissenborn explains.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Rights group Amnesty International urged countries to "resist" the move, saying the sanctions were "designed to isolate and ultimately destroy" the court.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

We could isolate someone and keep everyone else uninfected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Carriages on two affected trains were locked to isolate passenger areas from the cabs, said Southeastern, which operates services in Kent, East Sussex and Greater London.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I couldn't seem to concentrate long enough to weigh the worth of each thought, isolate its potential, allow it to grow.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

I tried to make the point, when I began the book, that the people who were involved with chatbots were social isolates.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

The team examined thousands of bacterial isolates collected from the human gut, along with large amounts of metagenomic data from people in multiple countries and across different age and health groups.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Each successful mission further isolates Russians at the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Using an SPV, he said, not only keeps the debt separate but also isolates the risk of a particular project.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025

A waist-high barrier isolates it from the rest of the space.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Australia said on Friday it had sanctioned two North Korean individuals and companies over the use of "fraudulent" IT workers and cybercrime to earn cash for the isolated nuclear-armed state.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Unlike techniques that study isolated molecules in a solution, cryo-ET can reveal how proteins are arranged and interact within their natural cellular surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The process recalls versioning in dub, where an existing recording is stripped down and reconstructed, its individual elements isolated, amplified or faded out entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Beyond that, they are looking to demonstrate that they are not isolated in this conflict.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

As lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than clients and citizens, we isolated ourselves from the people who were our anchor and on whose behalf we had labored.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

MarketWatch looked at isolating just the days when oil prices rose a lot to see its effect on stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

He described it as a "really isolating experience", in a tiny space.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Fox treated the disclosure as a fireable offense, cutting Bartiromo loose after over 12 years, isolating her from her own staff in her final weeks and firing her executive producer alongside her.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The setup made it possible to recreate extreme conditions that ordinary solid materials cannot reach while isolating the effects of particle collisions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

In the late 1930s, Beadle and Tatum reasoned that isolating the actual eye pigment of a fruit fly might solve the riddle of gene action.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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