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verb

past tense of insulate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of insulated
Adjective
Modern replacement windows may combine insulated glass, durable frames and thermal features designed to help improve indoor comfort. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026 Also, there’s two insulated water bottle holders, a place to put your pen, a magnetic pocket for a range finder and more. — Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026 Shop reusable, collapsible grocery bags and insulated options to keep your freezer items cold while traveling. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2026 Dropping on Thursday, the capsule includes include a four-pocket jacket in Ventile cotton with a detachable hood and an insulated jacket featuring Watanabe’s signature patchwork details. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026 When fall temperatures dip into cold territory, having a slightly heavier, insulated jacket to keep you warm is essential. — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2026 Other measures include a high-performance insulated precast envelope, natural shading, green roofs and an on-site district energy system. — New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026 These factors help protect Linde's cash generation, which remains highly insulated from inflationary spikes. — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
Second, improvements in the daily lives of ordinary people in Gaza should be insulated, if not totally delinked, from the political process. — Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended the assumption that energy infrastructure could be insulated from geopolitics. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 In most cases, consumers are largely insulated from that premium shock, experts said. — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Digger is wealthy, self-absorbed, insulated in his own reality, and sees himself as the center of the world in a way that many of us presume huge movie stars like Tom Cruise do. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026 Board evaluation should be as rigorous as executive evaluation, and it should be insulated from the chair’s own investment in their choices. — Albana Vrioni, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 Some are insulated for polar freezes, while others are built to handle tropical climates. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026 Upon taking office, Lamont and his wife insulated themselves against such claims of self dealing with an ethics agreement. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026 That was, until Friday night, when the team proved they weren’t entirely insulated from upheaval surrounding it. — Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulated
Adjective
  • Tornadoes An isolated risk for tornadoes will begin Friday night in coastal areas of Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and far southwestern Georgia.
    — MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Though a Metro-North station in Poughkeepsie was only a 10-minute drive away, the train ride was longer, and being across the river made the house feel more isolated.
    — Gabe Castro-Root, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • And then around ’98, when William made this decision that fractured the community forever, the well-meaning adults separated the genders.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
  • This means that Cumberland in Western Maryland and Salisbury on the Eastern Shore — separated by the Chesapeake Bay and nearly the entire width of the state — could one day end up represented by the same member of Congress.
    — Colin Pascal, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • O’Neill, a physics professor at Princeton, argued for the practical possibility of building human habitats that would float between Earth and the moon, housing tens of thousands of people in hermetic environments with earthlike gravity and climate.
    — Jacob Weisberg, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This hermetic secrecy is how Allure beauty director Sarah Kinonen and I recently found ourselves in the bathroom of a suite in the Aman hotel on New York’s Fifth Avenue, brushing our teeth while members of the Dyson public relations team looked on.
    — Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • There, Trump could not resist asking if Xi had brought other global leaders to this cloistered preserve.
    — Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The Sisters embody a unique culture of prayer, silence, solitude and community, living in a contemplative and cloistered order.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • In an era of ball-to-feet No 10s and withdrawn strikers, Welbeck stays high up the pitch, runs the channels and occupies defenders.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • The withdrawn earnings are taxed as ordinary income, the Treasury said.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 11 July 2026
Adjective
  • Sea turtles now nest on the secluded sandy beach that’s for all intents and purposes private, save for villagers occasionally visiting the small oceanfront temple for ceremonies.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Diana, who died in a car crash in August 1997, was laid to rest on a secluded island on the estate.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 28 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Collaboration Education organizes and assigns retired educators as tutors and helps economically disadvantaged parents engage productively with schools.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Casse said a portion of a recent client’s purchase price went to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, which supports accredited organizations caring for retired thoroughbreds.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Years ago, drone operators worked in segregated corridors to monitor their own aircraft.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In 1947, Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, yet by 1955, Little League in the South remained segregated.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Insulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulated. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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