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verb

isolate

CEFR C1

to set apart from others; to identify separately

In a sentence

Six example sentences with isolate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Hospital staff move the patient to a separate wing to isolate anyone carrying the infection until test results arrive.

    Medicine

  • Engineers disabled one service at a time to isolate the single component responsible for the nightly slowdown.

    Technology

  • A long lens and a wide aperture isolate one dancer from the crowded, blurred stage behind her.

    Photography

  • The engineer can isolate the bass track from the old mix, letting the band hear every buzz the 1980s hid.

    Music

  • To isolate the effect of sleep, the study kept diet, exercise, and screen time identical across both groups.

    Psychology

  • The offense cleared one side of the floor to isolate their best scorer against the slowest defender on the court.

    Basketball

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