isolate
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Traditional confocal microscopes use a small opening called a pinhole and a single detector to isolate light from a selected area.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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
After a time, the fires were more isolate in their devouring; the town presented a spectacle of black chimney-stacks and scorched ruin as far as eye could see.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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
This isolates the bedroom, with me in it, from the rest of the rover.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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These findings strengthened the evidence that MTCH2 influences whole-body metabolism, rather than simply changing the behavior of isolated cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Gusts of 55-75mph are possible in these areas, with isolated gusts potentially reaching 80mph.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Kenya has isolated 134 people after a man who flew into Nairobi from Congo died of Ebola, with eight of those isolated testing positive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Tala Leprosarium is located in the isolated foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains on 1,500 acres of rich, rolling land and sloped terrain.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
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
These include rapid diagnosis, isolating infected patients, tracing people who may have been exposed, strengthening infection control, and providing supportive medical care.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Both involved quarantines—the practice of isolating someone with a highly infectious disease from the healthy population.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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