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
He can stay wide and isolate a full-back, attack the space behind a defence or drift inside and combine with Barcelona's other forwards.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Of course it made sense to isolate people from each other if you were going to treat them like this!
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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While Mr. Graham-Dixon isolates the technical from the theological, Mr. Weber integrated the “optical and iconographic” aspects of Vermeer’s life and work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
To identify these enzymes, the research team used a technique that isolates proteins physically attached to chromatin, the natural packaging of DNA in human cells.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 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
"We want to build a care system that supports them, not isolates them."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
For an Aristotelian, there is only one discipline that isolates efficient causes and structures and ignores all others, and that discipline is mechanics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Differences were even seen between the Iriomote cat and the Tsushima leopard cat, two geographically isolated forms of the leopard cat found in Japan.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Or do you feel alone and isolated much of the time?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Perhaps the most striking is the story of Compound E, an adrenal hormone isolated by the Mayo Clinic biochemist Edward Kendall in 1935 and later synthesized with great difficulty by Tishler and other Merck chemists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Changes to the Park Lane road layout 80 years later left it inaccessible, leading it to become isolated, neglected and dirty.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The rest of the morning Uncle Jet isolated himself in the hogan, fixing it up and organizing it.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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 incidents show that the AI companies need to have stronger, industrywide standards for isolating their systems during cyber testing, said Alex Stamos, chief product officer with the cybersecurity company Corridor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It can be an isolating experience because people worry about facing judgement from others, she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“It can be isolating if you’re the only Latino on a set,” Guido shared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was a tremendous breakthrough, therefore, when, after years of effort, chemists of the Agriculture Department recently succeeded in isolating the attractant.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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