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isolation

[ahy-suh-ley-shuhn, is-uh-] / ˌaɪ səˈleɪ ʃən, ˌɪs ə- /


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Technology was creating human connection rather than isolation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Geographic isolation played a major role, along with the Antarctic Polar Front, a major boundary in the Southern Ocean where water temperature and salinity shift sharply.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

Local activists told a different story: It was kids’ prolonged isolation from their families that caused them to languish.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

She had concerns that isolation during the Covid19 lockdown might have "come to a head" and that she had found Noah crying in his bedroom earlier that day.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Geographic isolation leads to genetic isolation, and to eventual reproductive isolation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

File on 4 Investigates the use of internal isolations in secondary schools in England and hears from parents and students who say such techniques are affecting their mental health.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

They’re porous defensively and have a boring, predictable offense largely consisting of alternating one-on-one isolations between their “Big Three” most every trip down the court.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2026

It features some bird motion — pecking isolations, swooping flocks.

From New York Times Jun. 16, 2022

Doncic won late-game chess matches against the Warriors and Lakers by forcing and then exploiting isolations against Curry and James.

From Washington Post Mar. 5, 2022

This, or some such thing as this, they would agree, is far better than isolations and the perpetual threat of fresh warfare.

From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various




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