Definition of "isolates" []

• Plural form of isolate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of isolate. (verb)

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• "The problem Austen isolates is what happens when women transform themselves into "objects of male desire" but lack the opportunity to marry: where does the energy go?"
• "I worry about the ways that the sex positive label isolates the awards."
• "Even if the Spanish clade may result from a gradual expansion of the species from eastern France to Spain, both Spanish and Italian populations may represent long-term isolates, explaining their relatively high level of endemism"