isolated event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofisolatedandevent
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isolated
adjective
uk/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.tɪd/us/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/
not near to ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofisolatedandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofisolated event
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However, it was not anisolatedevent, and, as a result, there is more than just an interesting story here.
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Second, researchers treat research as anisolatedevent, separable from the rest of the subject's life.
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Because the laboratory experiment is an artificial,isolatedeventwithout the normal situational constraints on behavior, participants are extremely sensitive to cues from the experimenter.
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In many cases, the raw information provided by anisolatedeventis only partially relevant.
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Tricuspid incompetence may exist as anisolatedeventor secondary to poor right ventricular function.
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Dirt, then, is never a unique,isolatedevent.
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This makes these data unusual, and it allows for analysis beyond considering role-play as anisolatedeventor as a realization of a child's broader social understanding.
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The remaining single-day episodes represent something closer to a definition of spotting as anisolatedeventas they must be separated by at least 2 days from another episode.
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Indeed, attention does not fade away for anisolatedeventas such but instead because a target event is associated with other events, which make it predictable.
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I also urge you strongly to ensure that this does not remain anisolatedeventbut is the forerunner of an institutionalized and regular dialogue.
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That is not anisolatedevent: it happens all the time.
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It might be said that this in anisolatedevent, and that 1956 is a long time ago.
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That was not anisolatedevent, but has been happening with disturbing regularity.
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It was not just anisolatedevent.
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The conference was not anisolatedevent.
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Affecting thousands of people across several centuries, dancing mania was not anisolatedevent, and was well documented in contemporary reports.
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Horizontal gene transfer is considered anisolatedeventwhen it occurs in eukaryotic organisms; however, horizontal gene transfer occurs frequently in prokaryotes.
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Each service encounter was treated as anisolatedevent.
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The effect is considered not as anisolatedeventbut as an outcome of the whole system, which admitted its occurrence.
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