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  • noun Plural form of isolate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of isolate.

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Examples

  • The problem Austen isolates is what happens when women transform themselves into "objects of male desire" but lack the opportunity to marry: where does the energy go?

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • I worry about the ways that the sex positive label isolates the awards.

    About.com Sexuality 2010

  • I worry about the ways that the sex positive label isolates the awards.

    About.com Sexuality 2010

  • Even if the Spanish clade may result from a gradual expansion of the species from eastern France to Spain, both Spanish and Italian populations may represent long-term isolates, explaining their relatively high level of endemism

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Even if the Spanish clade may result from a gradual expansion of the species from eastern France to Spain, both Spanish and Italian populations may represent long-term isolates, explaining their relatively high level of endemism

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Christelle Tougard et al. 2008

  • She divides them into five categories based on how much they care about the organization, ranging from "isolates" to "diehards."

    Management Leaders Turn 2007

  • They know of course that all the money comes from Chavez and they are trying the path that so many other ex-chavista tried and failed, to pretend that a camarilla "isolates" Chavez from the reality.

    08/07/2005 - 08/14/2005 2005

  • They know of course that all the money comes from Chavez and they are trying the path that so many other ex-chavista tried and failed, to pretend that a camarilla "isolates" Chavez from the reality.

    Trouble in Venezuelan electoral paradise 2005

  • This goes to show that it is not the extent to which House "isolates" himself from others, but the extent to which others are willing to reach out to him.

    Serendip's Exchange xhan 2010

  • New Australian of the Year Mick Dodson says the date of Australia Day needs to be changed because January 26 "isolates" indigenous people.

    National Nine News 2009

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