isolation
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She launched Childline, a British counselling service for children and young people, in 1986, and in 2013 she launched Silver Line to help elderly people suffering from isolation and loneliness.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
What strikes you first are his scenes’ forthright emotions—a group of women tearfully sending their beaux off to fight in World War II, the isolation of a young man dining alone at a cafeteria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
Technology was creating human connection rather than isolation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
With a growing sense of isolation, he answered the question: NO.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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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
And though he has only been in isolation 11 times, per Synergy’s data, the Clippers are scoring 1.3 points per such possession, the third-highest average out of 75 players with a minimum of 10 isolations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Because they spent their early teenage years internalizing Spears’s dancing on MTV, the Madrids, who are known for their narrative choreography and staccato isolations, consider themselves “natural extensions of her and her work.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
In the first and even second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-week quarantines and isolations were common for many Americans, especially children.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
George John Romanes, a British naturalist, has added to Wagner's idea of isolation, the expanded conception that there may be isolations that are not geographical.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker
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Western Europe - Introductory
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