as in to isolate
to set or keep apart from others
tried to insulate their children from the often disturbing news in the mass media
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Recent Examples of insulate
For them, direct reader revenue insulates them from algorithmic shifts in traffic.
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Calum Chace, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Original price: $19.99 The Fit & Fresh Charm lunch bag does everything a lunch box needs to do, like keeping your food insulated and at the right temperature.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
Putin had begun this balancing act—behaving assertively abroad while insulating the home front from risk—two decades ago.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2025
Full Congressional approval would codify the DOGE cuts into law so that they couldn’t be reversed by the next administration and would help to insulate the Trump administration from legal challenges.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
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Calum Chace, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Original price: $19.99 The Fit & Fresh Charm lunch bag does everything a lunch box needs to do, like keeping your food insulated and at the right temperature.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
Putin had begun this balancing act—behaving assertively abroad while insulating the home front from risk—two decades ago.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2025
Full Congressional approval would codify the DOGE cuts into law so that they couldn’t be reversed by the next administration and would help to insulate the Trump administration from legal challenges.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulate
Verb
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They can be used to enforce least privilege, restrict destructive actions, and isolate misconfigured services—all without requiring code changes.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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In response, the city's IT systems were shut down on July 28 to isolate the city's infrastructure from potential damage, according to Mayor Melvin Carter.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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What separates book club and your memories of school reading class is that it’s supposed to be fun.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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The nights following each new moon phase will see the line separating night from day on the lunar surface creep inexorably westward.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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My early understanding segregated them into distinct Black American traditions: he, Du Bois, she, Washington; the new and the old; white-collar and blue; the talented tenth and those they were charged to uplift.—
Michael Thomas,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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Indigenous art has been segregated into natural history museums, not art museums.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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“Insulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulate. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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