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adjective

as in isolated

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verb

past tense of insulate

as in separated

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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Adjective

Traditional Christmas string lights feature bulbs spaced along an insulated electrical cord. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2026 Analysts said checking accounts are more insulated because they are tied to everyday payments, while savings accounts, where customers are more focused on earning higher yields, could face greater competition. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 Lucas seconds her shoe suggestion, specifically calling out this insulated Chelsea boot style that has a durable rubber outsole and a waterproof suede upper. — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026 The creator economy has become highly fragmented as algorithms push content into insulated silos. — William Daddi, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The line opens at $228 and goes up to $448 and includes insulated jackets and vests, fleece hoodies, leggings, quarter-zip mocknecks and joggers. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 Trader Joe’s has expanded its mini tote lineup with new colors and insulated versions, showing how a familiar product can keep drawing fresh interest. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026 And the moist, insulated microclimate under leaf litter is also critical for terrestrial amphibians, including frogs and salamanders, to survive freezing temperatures. — Manjot Kaur Sidhu, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026 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

Verb

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said at a news conference on Wednesday that AI investment is not insulated from monetary policy. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 Yet Dunlap is also somewhat insulated from that critique due to his years spent as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, a pro-2nd Amendment group that supports hunters and fishermen. — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026 Employee ownership, however, has not insulated the studio from financial pressures. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 Nuclear deserves renewed attention as both an energy and national security asset, since reactors provide reliable electricity largely insulated from short-term geopolitical shocks. — Dr. Sarah Kapnick, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The International Energy Agency has noted that renewable energy has partly insulated European economies from truly disastrous fossil fuel price shocks. — Claas Mertens, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026 Hold to maturity, and you’re largely insulated from interest-rate swings. — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 10 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulated

Adjective

Unifying early creative and planning phases with advanced analytics ensures downstream execution is driven by objective market signals rather than isolated guessing.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
Storms will start to arrive on Friday, with stray showers in isolated areas and maximum temperatures 5 to 10 degrees below normal, according to the forecast from the National Weather Service.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of isolated

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Beckman portrayed the first lady's work on the ceasefire as an extension of her efforts to help reunite Russian and Ukrainian children with their families after they were separated by Russia's war against Ukraine.

— BEN FINLEY, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Her parents had recently separated, and her mother, Alta Apantenco, was working as a waitress to support herself and her young daughter.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of separated

Adjective

Impossible than to the hermetic paranoia of Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of hermetic

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

Definition of cloistered

Adjective

Hampton Island, Georgia Affleck’s Georgia estate is hardly a standard holiday house and more like a secluded coastal compound.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026
There are two secluded Mallorcan calas that guests can access, with one just steps from my own door and therefore ideal for a morning dip in the still-pleasant October waters.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of secluded

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Karen Clay-Fenderson, a Los Angeles mom and retired teacher with more than 120,000 Instagram followers, has posted videos about Proposition 42.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
In statements to the Washington Examiner, the campaign arm of Senate Democrats and Peltola’s campaign denied involvement with the Senate bid from the second Sullivan, who is a retired schoolteacher.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of retired

Adjective

And now there is reporting that the chancellor’s plan to desegregate our very segregated schools has stalled, and that city payments to childcare providers are so low that many are closing — while the system is supposed to be expanding.

— Ciara Jackson, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
The 28-year-old Dominican national is allegedly being held in a segregated unit at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, as federal prosecutors seek to remove him from the country, according to the petition.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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