How to Use in isolation in a Sentence
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The chairs haven’t spent all these years in isolation.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
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Burnout rarely showed up in isolation.
—Sandro Da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Those are all things that in isolation are good bits of advice.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
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He doesn’t get scored on in isolation if teams do try to target him.
—Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2025
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This dispute should not be seen in isolation.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
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The finding did not emerge in isolation.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026
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The giant python may not have evolved on the island in isolation.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
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In the long run and in isolation, in other words, none of our options are cheap.
—Marisa Novara, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
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She was placed in isolation, where her cell quickly piled up with trash and human waste.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
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None of this exists in isolation.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
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This did not happen in isolation.
—Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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Great style rarely happens in isolation.
—Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
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The phrase can also be used in isolation as a joke and to mystify adults.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
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Such a war could not be fought by Iran and Israel in isolation.
—Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024
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So many of the stresses and strains of life in isolation will be amplified.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2024
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Nutt reduces the face to a kind of map where each feature exists in isolation, with its own style.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
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This move away from raw performance means that the chipsets are no longer measured in isolation.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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The giant python may not have evolved on Taiwan in isolation.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2026
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Those numbers in isolation only tell a part of the story.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
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If one part is optimized in isolation, the system can still fail.
—Eddie Sinnott, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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But fortunately for us, black holes do not live in isolation.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
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But eating more chiles isn’t, in isolation, enough to stay out of the doctor’s office.
—Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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None of this feels dangerous in isolation.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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At the quantum scale, systems do not exist in isolation.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
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But in isolation, this won’t close the gender investment gap.
—Asahi Pompey, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
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At first the coming back home in isolation… so my shoulder was completely torn.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
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Most of us watch movies in isolation, which Zemeckis sees as a huge problem.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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Cults thrive in isolation, and this poses a challenge for the urban cult leader.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
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Even healthcare providers can draw few conclusions from a pelvic exam when used in isolation.
—Tracee Cornforth, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2024
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When reared in crowds, female locusts were found to lay fewer but larger eggs than those raised in isolation.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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