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

Charles is hardly to be known for the same person he used to be, he has insulated himself entirely, and looks very miserable.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz