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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
island .
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I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded!
Promo 2009
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I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded!
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Microgrids, which are "islanded" power generation and distribution zones that can operate autonomously from the larger electrical grid, are an increasing area of focus for institutions, governments, corporations, and utilities.
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Microgrids that enable "islanded" power generation and distribution will be another important growth market in the coming years, with $7.8 billion in cumulative investment by
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Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration.
Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."
VARIANTS: ISLANDED IN A STREAM OF STARS - PREVIEW radii 2009
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The house sits at a dizzy 174 feet above sea level, enough to keep my patch islanded when the promised flood comes.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The house sits at a dizzy 174 feet above sea level, enough to keep my patch islanded when the promised flood comes.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I just ordered the book "The Outermost House" from which they pulled the phrase "islanded in a stream of stars".
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Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."
Archive 2009-03-01 radii 2009
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