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
Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Measures included isolating the soldiers' families and even relocating them, the NIS said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 28 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
Gaza is uniquely isolated—governed for the past seventeen years by Hamas and subject to an unremitting blockade by Israel.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Measures included isolating the soldiers' families and even relocating them, the NIS said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 28 Oct. 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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The hermit nation transported its special forces fighters on seven Russian ships earlier in October, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a press release on Friday.Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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High-altitude rivalry The blurry boundaries through the Himalayan peaks and plateaus separating China and its southern neighbors are often relics of imperial era agreements and nomadic routes – now charged with the nationalist rhetoric and military might of New Delhi and Beijing.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Still, the line separating sports and politics is growing thinner and thinner.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 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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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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Paul was sent into solitary for not having his shirt on in his cell.David Trone, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 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 13 Nov. 2024.
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