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Accordingly, many R&D stalwarts have begun re-organizing themselves to mitigate insularism and take advantage of lone inventors and other external sources of innovation.

From Forbes • Jun. 7, 2012

Can we wonder that Americans have retorted with some asperity upon criticisms in which any approach to such insolent insularism is even remotely or inadvertently implied?

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William

So many voices of so various countries cannot be simply set aside: unless we wrap ourselves in an insolent insularism, we are bound at least to ask what is the meaning of their concurrent testimony.

From Byron by Nichol, John