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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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Recent Examples of insulated
Becca Blond, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2025
Keep your thermostat at 65 degrees or higher and ensure your home is well-insulated.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Jan. 2025
Check if pipes in unheated parts of the home are insulated.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Jan. 2025
The sole is thick and well-insulated, and the lugs have excellent tread for a range of conditions.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2025
Of course, nobody has the right to be insulated from criticism.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
Fortunately, the hotel buildings are well insulated.
—Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The White House denied the claims that Biden had declined or had been insulated during his time in office.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Public health must take its rightful place as a cornerstone of national policy, insulated from political whims and guided by science.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Verb
The Bogs are insulated, plushly lined, waterproof, slip-resistant, and designed for harsh winter conditions.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for insulated
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This is an isolated incident and not a threat to the public at this time, according to officials.—
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Organizations must restructure talent development and organizational frameworks to optimize for knowledge integration rather than isolated expertise.—
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Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.—
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Once the ladies are separated, Jackie pulls Heavenly aside to scold her for her behavior.—
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Gradually, Twigs shows her hermetic side: the monkishness of the night-life circuit girl.—
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This isn’t a hermetic kind of meditation, one in which outer havoc is kept at bay.—
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That process, undertaken in cloistered seclusion, provides not only the movie’s action but also its warily aggressive tone.—
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This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.—
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Hong’s withdrawn gaze is interrupted by sudden movements, like pans across space and crash zooms into ongoing conversations.—
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Solitary, eccentric, shrouded in a mystical melancholy, Joakim fights for his farm and leads a withdrawn life, with only his pets and a neighbor for company; a Slovak immigrant who also lives ostracized, as an outsider.—
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Although affluent travelers have traditionally selected luxury hotels and opulent resorts as their preferred choice of accommodations, secluded villas and opulent suites with all the bells and whistles have recently become popular among ultra-high-net-worth individuals.—
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The resort has 12 ridge-top suites providing a panoramic view of the Atlantic, 12 beachfront villas and 11 private secluded villas on the resort grounds.—
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As a retired military officer, Caine will be brought back onto active duty and will have to be confirmed by the Senate in order to assume the role of the president's senior military adviser and the nation's top military officer.—
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The weather conditions may have become treacherous before the pilots were able to adapt, said retired jet pilot Les Abend.—
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The song was first performed that year by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at a segregated school in Florida where James Weldon Johnson served as principal.—
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King first rose to prominence in the 1950s as the leader of the boycott against the segregated bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.—
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“Insulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insulated. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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