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Meanings of insular in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ground"
Examples for "ground"
1
Russian state media said the talks proved the sides had common ground.
2
Exporters were likely to lose ground as a result, market players said.
3
Conditions should be similar to yesterday and it's really nice, good ground.
4
The ground has shifted quite dramatically on the question in recent years.
5
And what we call 'the ground game' is quite expensive, he said.
1
Demand to clear new land for farming therefore remains strong, he said.
2
The government said the land was needed for public interest development projects.
3
The Gulf state had not, however, discussed buying agricultural land, he said.
4
The tool should help policymakers to plan future land use, she said.
5
Problems over acquisition of land for nuclear power plants could delay projects.
1
The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
2
But some weeks, it's clear everyone needs to come down to earth.
3
It will remain until the new heavens and the new earth come.
4
However, scientists are starting to apply space-age solutions to more down-to-earth problems.
5
We sink in water; in air we tumble; on earth we stumble.
1
How long could they last with no dry land to rest on?
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Nothing yet indicated the proximity of dry land, even in this direction.
3
Pulling it out upon dry land, he wrapped it in his blanket.
4
The march of the canoes on dry land is a curious sight.
5
He slashed again and I was forced to jump onto dry land.
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Maybe the earth was solid ground after all; of course it was.
2
Well, landing on solid ground is less risky than landing at sea.
3
Once on solid ground, many passengers still had a lengthy journey ahead.
4
In Texas, Rosenblum pointed out, the employment market is on solid ground.
5
In Miami-Dade County, researchers are working to keep history on solid ground.
Usage of insular in English
1
However, the problem isn't as widespread as your insular worldview may suggest.
2
They have, for example, their insular conventions which simply MUST be observed.
3
They are insular, despite their best efforts not to be, she said.
4
The Ivets were so insular, yet they did more work than most.
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This study represents the first epidemiological survey of the insular Belle-Ile-en-Mer environment.
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But the experience has utterly changed Melody, leaving her insular and terrified.
7
Pitt then deprecated the effort to inflame the insular pride of Irishmen.
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Less than half the patients with NSM following stroke had insular involvement.
9
His influence reached far beyond the insular world of coding and computers.
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This is what really grates - this glib pandering to insular self-righteousness.
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Only a select few outsiders are accepted into the insular inner circle.
12
Tube dependency was significantly associated with affection of the anterior insular cortex.
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England became less of an insular and more of a continental power.
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Germany is autocratic, philosophical, and continental; England is democratic, political, and insular.
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It's so insular that these stories get going and they get amplified.
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But slowly, word of bitcoin spread beyond the insular world of cryptography.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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