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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Recent Examples of isolate
Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 20 June 2024
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
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
In whey protein, the results are forms of protein in isolates, concentrates, and hydrolysates.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 20 June 2024
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
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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Gong then drove each victim’s Tesla to separate desert areas and burned them, the DA’s office said.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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In District 1, John Park and Melinda Liu have pulled away from three other candidates in the race, but the two of them were separated by just 57 votes out of more than 14,900 votes tallied as of Friday night.Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 8 Nov. 2024
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The rain Sunday will follow systems that dropped some rain on the region Monday, a bit less on Wednesday and a couple of isolated cells — a quarter-inch on Mount Diablo; about fifteen-hundredths of an inch in Dublin, five-hundredths of an inch in Oakland — on Thursday.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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And because the two isolated genes are found in many other plant species, similar genetic editing may help improve other agricultural staples in the future.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 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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Colorado has agreed to do more to prevent needless isolation of thousands of people with physical disabilities who were confined to nursing homes, settling a federal lawsuit that claimed state health officials illegally segregate too many people.Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
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One skull will tell the story of freedmen colonies that scattered Black life throughout the Austin area before the city’s 1928 masterplan segregated the community east of Interstate 35.Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 31 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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Villa Avellana Who Stays There: Tech entrepreneurs, bank CEOs, music producers, and entertainers The Property: A modern, teak-and-glass villa on a secluded cove with red land crabs, white egrets, and turtle nests.Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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Loreto, Mexico, is a secluded town on the Baja Peninsula known for its natural beauty and tranquility.Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 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 28 Nov. 2024.
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