Example Sentences

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For most of last year, Apple had insulated its cash cow - the iPhone - from the shortages by prioritizing components to the popular product.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2021

He pointed out that we’d managed to attach ourselves to a group of popular kids, and that had insulated us to some degree.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

If McCain could post a win there, the veneer of inevitability that had insulated Bush would crumble, and ease McCain's path to the nomination.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2018

Aldrich sees her passions coming into conflict with the norms of the time, and he works frenzied variations on the clash between the isolated woman and the surrounding world, from which she had insulated herself.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2017

This was an accident and a witch hunt; the prosecution felt the defense had insulated itself from science and reality.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel