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Six example sentences with insular, each labelled with its topic.
Ten years abroad cured him of the insular assumption that everyone everywhere secretly wanted to eat and argue like his neighbors.
Travel
The founding team grew insular, hiring only classmates, and shipped a product that baffled every customer outside their own city.
Startups
The novel mocks an insular village where the only foreign thing anyone has read is a shipping label.
Literature
The insular party leadership had not visited a factory town in a decade and was stunned by the election result.
Politics
An insular management team that hires only from one university misses ideas the rest of the industry takes for granted.
Business
The lab grew insular, citing only its own papers, and missed a method a rival group had published years earlier.
Science
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