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verb

past tense of insulate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of insulated
Adjective
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 Its thermal batteries convert low-cost electricity into heat and store it inside insulated blocks of solid carbon. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026 Photovoltaic cells are laminated between the glass layers of the same insulated glass unit the building already installs, so the facade arrives at the site as one assembly. — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended the assumption that energy infrastructure could be insulated from geopolitics. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 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 Cash-rich mega-cap tech firms remain relatively insulated, whereas data centers, AI infrastructure projects, and early-stage startups that rely heavily on continuous external funding face significantly heightened financial strain. — CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 Those questions are especially sensitive because the Fed is designed to be insulated from the political winds in Washington. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulated
Adjective
  • Moisture continued to stream into the area early Wednesday, fueling showers and isolated thunderstorms that are expected to continue through the morning.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of producing isolated pieces of content, communications teams should ask how each piece strengthens a larger body of knowledge.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The new stops designed to accommodate bikes and buses are about five inches off the ground and separated from the road by a curb.
    — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • At temperate northern latitudes, consecutive moonrises around Harvest Moon can therefore be separated by much less than the usual 50 minutes, and at some northern locations by only a few minutes.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 25 Sep. 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
  • Their gathering at a secluded house quickly turns into a hellish reunion as the family members turn into Deadites.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
  • After lingering over spaghetti alle vongole at Ristorante Lido Azzurro, which hovers over the sea near Amalfi’s harbor, zip around the coast to sea caverns and grottos, pausing for dips in secluded spots away from the crowds.
    — Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Jury convicts four in June A jury on June 5 convicted Jones, his wife, Kateryna, and retired union executive William Creeden of racketeering conspiracy, embezzlement and other felonies.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Some retired employees who worked undercover might need protection services like relocation assistance or even name changes if their data is exposed publicly.
    — Jenna McLaughlin, NPR, 30 Sep. 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 2 Oct. 2026.

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