as in separating
to set or keep apart from others
rescuers finally reached outlying villages that had been isolated by the massive earthquake
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Recent Examples of isolating
The ship is now in the Atlantic off West Africa's island nation of Cape Verde, and the World Health Organization said passengers are isolating in their cabins.
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ABC News, 6 May 2026
Health officials said passengers and crew members still on the ship are without symptoms and isolating in their cabins.
—Annie Risemberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
What had once felt isolating, started to feel shared.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
According to Israeli campaign group Peace Now, 2025 saw record settlement expansion, further isolating Palestinian population centers.
—Molly Hunter, NBC news, 2 May 2026
These isotopes have half-lives lasting hundreds of thousands of years, which determines the conditions for isolating radioactive waste from the environment.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
Curated by Our Editors Ultimately, public health workers got control of the outbreak through testing, contact tracing, isolating of sick and exposed individuals and vaccination.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026
After the initial flattery, the tone shifts to isolating phrases.
—Kathy and Ross Petrass, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
Rather than scattering smaller common areas across different floors or isolating them in separate corners, the design brings everything together in one open hub.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
ABC News, 6 May 2026
Health officials said passengers and crew members still on the ship are without symptoms and isolating in their cabins.
—Annie Risemberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
What had once felt isolating, started to feel shared.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
According to Israeli campaign group Peace Now, 2025 saw record settlement expansion, further isolating Palestinian population centers.
—Molly Hunter, NBC news, 2 May 2026
These isotopes have half-lives lasting hundreds of thousands of years, which determines the conditions for isolating radioactive waste from the environment.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
Curated by Our Editors Ultimately, public health workers got control of the outbreak through testing, contact tracing, isolating of sick and exposed individuals and vaccination.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026
After the initial flattery, the tone shifts to isolating phrases.
—Kathy and Ross Petrass, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
Rather than scattering smaller common areas across different floors or isolating them in separate corners, the design brings everything together in one open hub.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for isolating
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Next, Butac arranges a bunch of the beans on two trays and roasts them for a specific amount of time before separating the shells from the beans and then running the bean fragments, also known as nibs, through a mill.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
10 May 2026
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Still, robotics has a long history of inflated expectations, making many executives cautious about separating breakthrough potential from hype.—
Dr. Jonathan Reichental,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up.—
John O’Hara,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Isolating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/isolating. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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