in isolation
idiom
: apart from others : separately
The researchers work in isolation.
Their culture developed in isolation from the rest of the world.
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Fostering Strategic Partnerships: No company can innovate in isolation.
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Mansour Alajmi, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
So try delegating, creating, and collaborating above grinding in isolation.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
Watching movies in isolation, removed from that ripple of communal feeling, has done us no favors.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
The patient had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center and testing done by the Nebraska Laboratory Response Network early Monday showed that the patient was presumptively positive for Lassa fever.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
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Mansour Alajmi, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
So try delegating, creating, and collaborating above grinding in isolation.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
Watching movies in isolation, removed from that ripple of communal feeling, has done us no favors.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
The patient had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center and testing done by the Nebraska Laboratory Response Network early Monday showed that the patient was presumptively positive for Lassa fever.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
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“In isolation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20isolation. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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