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Meanings of insular in English

Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope.

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Usage of insular in English
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However, the problem isn't as widespread as your insular worldview may suggest.
Ebony
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They have, for example, their insular conventions which simply MUST be observed.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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They are insular, despite their best efforts not to be, she said.
Reuters
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The Ivets were so insular, yet they did more work than most.
The Reality Dysfunction
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This study represents the first epidemiological survey of the insular Belle-Ile-en-Mer environment.
Pubmed
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But the experience has utterly changed Melody, leaving her insular and terrified.
The Irish Times
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Pitt then deprecated the effort to inflame the insular pride of Irishmen.
William Pitt and the Great War
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Less than half the patients with NSM following stroke had insular involvement.
Pubmed
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His influence reached far beyond the insular world of coding and computers.
Wired
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This is what really grates - this glib pandering to insular self-righteousness.
The Irish Times
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Only a select few outsiders are accepted into the insular inner circle.
The Irish Times
12
Tube dependency was significantly associated with affection of the anterior insular cortex.
Pubmed
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England became less of an insular and more of a continental power.
Queen Victoria
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Germany is autocratic, philosophical, and continental; England is democratic, political, and insular.
Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
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It's so insular that these stories get going and they get amplified.
The Guardian
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But slowly, word of bitcoin spread beyond the insular world of cryptography.
Wired
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