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There was little world history taught to us in school; the curriculum was insularly devoted to India’s freedom struggle.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2017

Yet the essence of Jenkins' war with the world is neither bound to a period nor insularly British.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dickens was soon pining for home—no English writer is more essentially and insularly English in inspiration and aspiration than he is.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various