isolationist
Example Sentences
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Countries have become more isolationist manufacturing-wise, so they need to generate more electricity locally.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Sometimes he is called an isolationist, sometimes an interventionist.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
It’s often said that Hoxha turned Albania into a Balkan North Korea, but he was, in truth, more isolationist even than the North Korean Kims.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Those sites represent shifting centers of power, influence and reigning cultural philosophy within the country, beginning with the isolationist Joseon dynasty that ruled for half a millennium, before the tumultuous modern era.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
Their only potential rivals were the lumbering, isolationist United States of North America and the newly awakened Island Kingdom of Japan.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.