as in to separate
to set or keep apart from others
rescuers finally reached outlying villages that had been isolated by the massive earthquake
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Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
Utilizing the isolate, a byproduct of Rosin Absolute's extraction process, allows Juva Life to maximize return on investment from all its outputs.
—Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio, the AI-powered earbuds, which are set to be released by year’s end, are able to isolate voices amid the hubbub of a busy room.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Previous ferret experiments with H5N1 isolates—collected prior to the current bird flu outbreak among US dairy cows—have also found that H5N1 is often lethal to ferrets.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
Utilizing the isolate, a byproduct of Rosin Absolute's extraction process, allows Juva Life to maximize return on investment from all its outputs.
—Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
Verb
According to the National Weather Service in Wilmington, isolated to scattered showers will form on Monday.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio, the AI-powered earbuds, which are set to be released by year’s end, are able to isolate voices amid the hubbub of a busy room.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
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His exhortations are driven by a cynical bluster, a loss of faith in mankind; that seems to be the real reason that he’s abandoned Germany to live as a tropical hermit.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
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With Trump and Harris now separated by a hair in Michigan and Wisconsin, the Stein vote could once again prove decisive this year.Joe Edwards, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The result of all the tumult has been razor-thin polling margins separating the two candidates for months.Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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Feelings of loneliness may also be at least partially tied to weather, which is why many of us might start feeling a little more isolated in the cold slog of deep winter.Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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In addition to isolated catalysts like the McDonald’s foodborne illness agita and an analyst report pointing to lighter-than-hoped sales for Apple’s iPhone 16, there was a familiar foe behind much of the losses: climbing Treasury yields.Derek Saul, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Sweat was then confined to 23-hour-a-day solitary at Five Points Correctional Center, though he was subsequently transferred to Attica Correctional after trying to bribe Five Points officials.Kenny Herzog, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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Brandon reportedly died by suicide locked in solitary in that shower cage.Tamara Carter, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
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The six Pennsylvania Republicans asked that overseas votes be segregated, claiming the state was opening the door to fraud by not taking required steps to verify the ballots.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
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Schools are increasingly targeted in mass shootings and effectively segregated by race.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
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When Marnie Was There A subtle, rewarding story about adolescence and identity based on a 1967 novel of the same name by British author Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There follows Anna, a shy and withdrawn girl who struggles to connect to anyone.Matt Kamen, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
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Mara, though initially more withdrawn, eventually gives in to his charms, even though Matt isn’t exactly a typical leading man.Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
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At the eastern tip of the Hamptons on Long Island, the Stone House in Montauk sits on 3.2 secluded acres near the edge of a 70-foot bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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This secluded wellness oasis offers a holistic approach to well-being, drawing inspiration from the island's Indigenous Arawak tribe.Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
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The headphones have an open-back design, enabling sound to move in and out without that cloistered feeling of many closed-back designs.Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Isolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/isolate. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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