isolate
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If researchers can isolate the chemical responsible, they may gain a useful tool for investigating the brain circuits and processes that create these unusually detailed visual experiences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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
His spokesman said Kenya had the capacity to detect, isolate and manage suspected cases, adding that so far more than 650,000 travellers had been screened and 267 samples tested.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In 1957, the biochemist Arthur Kornberg set out to isolate the DNA-copying enzyme.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
Turning liquid whey into premium protein concentrates and isolates takes multimillion-dollar ultrafiltration systems and drying towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
By operating as a separate entity, GenCo isolates the cost of new growth to data centers, according to NiSource.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
This isolates the bedroom, with me in it, from the rest of the rover.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Police said they arrested three suspects but the election commission called it an isolated local case.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Storms will start to arrive on Friday, with stray showers in isolated areas and maximum temperatures 5 to 10 degrees below normal, according to the forecast from the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Then we isolated stocks with dividend yields of at least 5.00% that also have estimated FCF headroom of at least 2.00%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Although the findings come from experiments in mice and isolated mouse liver cells, they provide new insight into how hormonal changes and diet may interact to influence liver health.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Chattana had always been isolated from its neighbors, but the destruction was so great that no one could have helped them anyway.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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Our replacement was isolating so we moved closer to town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
MarketWatch looked at isolating just the days when oil prices rose a lot to see its effect on stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Backed by child protection groups, Marquetty unsuccessfully opposed the closed-door proceedings, arguing that it was "paradoxical" for a defendant accused of isolating his victims to be tried behind closed doors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
"They've achieved the military objective of isolating Taiz from Aden, even if they haven't fully taken control of it," Farea Al-Muslimi, a research fellow at the Chatham House think tank, told AFP.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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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