isolationist
Americannoun
adjective
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And yet, as a self-described isolationist, said résumé might not exist if he were left to his own devices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Countries have become more isolationist manufacturing-wise, so they need to generate more electricity locally.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
The document is “far less isolationist than one could have expected—and far more positive about US partners and allies,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
The United States, traditionally isolationist and safely sheltered by two vast oceans, had emerged from World War Two as the leader of the free world.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Their only potential rivals were the lumbering, isolationist United States of North America and the newly awakened Island Kingdom of Japan.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
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