isolate
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They developed an unusual experimental system designed to isolate proprioception.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Aggregate figures cannot isolate Maia’s contribution, so management’s explanation of infrastructure costs and product mix will matter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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
The key thing about invective or ad hominem attack is that it is a sort of reverse ethos appeal: the purpose is to isolate your opponent from the community.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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
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
The latest research isolates the role of CSE itself.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026
This isolates the ethylene, resulting in a highly pure product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
A waist-high barrier isolates it from the rest of the space.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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“The airplane was seen to have entered a very powerful, isolated thunderstorm that was high as to where that airplane was flying,” said Jeff Guzzetti, a former top U.S. aircraft accident investigator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In fact, the Kremlin swiftly dismissed the idea even as the ceasefire was under way, calling Oleshky "an isolated case" which would not affect the "settlement process" – a euphemism for the stalled peace talks.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
County region, with some isolated areas seeing heavier precipitation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
New genetic evidence reveals unexpected links between populations separated by enormous distances, challenging the long-held idea that eastern and western European groups remained largely isolated from one another.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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
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Instead of physically isolating and examining hundreds of thousands of peptides, the program analyzed the roughly 20,000 genes that encode human proteins, looking for sequences where the enzyme was likely to make cuts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
I thought and thought all afternoon, and I could see that Chester had done a good job of isolating Bunnicula from his food.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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