Example Sentences

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This could have been an opportunity for Washington to isolate the isolator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

This property is utilised in a central component of optical communication networks known as an "optical isolator" or "optical diode."

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

The asteroid samples will be placed in a nitrogen environment in large, custom-designed isolator glove boxes to keep them pristine and away from the terrestrial atmosphere.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023

Keep an eye out for new concentrate formats coming from all over the world, like piattella, which is frozen bubble isolator cold cure.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023

Mendel, the monk, was an isolator; Darwin, who had once aspired to be a parson, a synthesizer.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee