insulate
verb (used with object)
to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound.
has insulated
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present perfectof insulate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A low dependence on Middle East oil has insulated Latin America’s largest economy from higher prices better than most.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Investors and economists can argue about the effectiveness and fairness of that policy, but it has insulated America from cars built with low-cost Chinese labor from flooding the market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
It has insulated components on rovers sent to Mars, extracted toxic contaminants from water, some even speculate that the US military has put it inside nuclear warheads.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023
As my colleague Nitish Pahwa wrote back in November, voting in Musk’s polls is both entirely useless and the only way to provide feedback to a man whose money has insulated him from reality.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2023
At the very utmost, he has been shut up merely with a moral sense which he has insulated from its dread ground and support,—the personal character and holy emotions of God.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
