isolate
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While the brief looked at a variety of economic outcomes — including employment, wages and general inflation — looking at rental conditions alone can help isolate how housing markets spill over into people’s everyday lives.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The U.S. in recent weeks has been trying to economically isolate Iran, which has raised the risks for any bank or crypto platforms that officials might determine are helping the regime evade the restrictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Dresser wanted a Dutch door — one where both the top and bottom halves swing open independently — attached to their office space, where they sometimes isolate fosters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hernandez's parents allege that these people "enabled Burke to isolate" Rivas Hernandez and facilitated his travel, housing and security.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
While attempting to isolate enough of the compounds in the cockroaches, an international consortium of scientists develops revolutionary technologies to increase the size of the cockroaches through genetic manipulation.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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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
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
This isolates the bedroom, with me in it, from the rest of the rover.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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District Judge Richard G. Stearns found the incidents cited by the government were “too isolated and episodic” to prove an ongoing violation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
However, Tesla’s declines aren’t isolated to the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
So far, the vision-correction experiments have been performed on isolated rabbit eyeballs rather than living animals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Children approach large language models as a salve from real-life social pressures, only to end up feeling more isolated than before.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Those residing in ghetto communities were particularly ill equipped to adapt to the seismic changes taking place in the U.S. economy; they were left isolated and jobless.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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"The lack of support feels isolating," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
For the wistful, lovelorn loner, it’s an imperative reminder that being attached at the hip can still be isolating, no matter how much two people think alike.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
He described the months since the complaint became public as “painful” and isolating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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