isolationist

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noun

iso·​la·​tion·​ist

plural -s

: one that advocates or believes in isolationism

criticism … not from isolationists but from internationalists

—Atlantic

anthropological isolationists

isolationist

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adjective

: of, characterized by, or favoring isolationism

the orthodox believe that much money can be saved, especially of what now goes to foreign aid, by a more isolationist foreign policy

—Walter Lippmann

the country was in an overwhelmingly isolationist mood

—F. L. Allen

culturally as well as politically isolationist

—Christian Gauss

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