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A Las Vegas company called Screaming Images is also currently developing recyclable clear acrylic dividers to keep people semi-isolated, which are being tested at the El Cortez casino in the city’s downtown:

From Slate • May 7, 2020

In Africatown, a semi-isolated clutch of cottages three miles north of downtown Mobile, the news carried a particular kind of heft.

From New York Times • May 26, 2019

In the cold war Finland was a semi-isolated buffer state between East and West.

From Economist • Mar. 27, 2013

In the second study, several members of a semi-isolated chimp community in the West African nation of Guinea died from a flulike respiratory illness.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2010

A number of semi-isolated stocks in central Montana became differentiated as a recognizable subspecies there.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.