isolation

Example Sentences

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Insomnia and sleep apnea should be assessed together instead of in isolation.

From Science Daily

The episode also marked the beginning of decades of international isolation for Iran.

From BBC

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

So long as human bodies are fallible to disease, we will need labs studying viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites to see which ones could cause major problems — and we can’t do this work in isolation.

From Salon

Later in the record, on the patient and stately “Instead of Here,” she sings “I’m not here / I’m where nobody can reach,” and she makes isolation sound like a state of bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal