as in isolated
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
cold-shouldered by his old friends after his family had lost all of its money
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Authorities are notably worried about people living in the baking streets, and elderly people in nursing homes or isolated in their homes.
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According to state police, the incident appears isolated and does not present any danger to the public.
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Officials in Hood County, Texas, for example, rejected a proposal for a six-month moratorium after a state senator urged the Texas attorney general to intervene and prevent the measure.
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New Delhi, however, rejected the claim, insisting the ceasefire was the result of direct bilateral talks with Pakistan.
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An Observer investigation last month found that the city spent more than $1 million in mostly taxpayer funds fighting and eventually settling with Patterson and other Black firefighters who accused the department of racial discrimination, retaliation and snubbed promotions.
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But George had courted, and then snubbed, Richmond’s teen-age sister Sarah, marrying a minor German princess instead.
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Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it.
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Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences.
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For each of the murders, the four men either lured or abducted and drove the victims to the Angeles National Forest after the victims slighted the gang in different ways, according to the Justice Department.
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.
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The current unrest first erupted in May after Paz cut long-standing fuel subsidies to shrink the deficit.
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Some analysts expect Apple could benefit as manufacturers of Android devices cut specs or raise prices.
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