isolate

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Social media companies argue that blanket bans will be ineffective, difficult to enforce and could isolate vulnerable teenagers.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Researchers then isolate these synapses and use high-throughput sequencing to read which barcode pairs are found together.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Citizen scientists will then be encouraged to gather sediment from rooftops and gutters and use magnets, sieves, and microscopes provided by the project to isolate potential micrometeorites.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Military strategists say that in an invasion or blockade of Taiwan, China could isolate the island nation by using mines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

In 1957, the biochemist Arthur Kornberg set out to isolate the DNA-copying enzyme.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee