Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an insular manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an insular manner.
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- adverb In an
insular manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why would our country contribute to the insularly nature of particular religious community even more by excluding them from defending our/their country?
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Private groups would try to secede a la Journolist -always destroying themselves in the process out of sheer boredom with each other as they insularly cut themselves off from the main body.
An article in the New York Times: "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version." Ann Althouse 2009
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Managers tend to behave somewhat insularly, politically, and bureaucratically.
CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE John P. Kotter 1992
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Andersen, who can see a thing under his eyes and place it under yours, and take a thought separately into his soul and express it insularly, but has no sort of instinct towards wholeness and unity; and writes a book by putting so many pages together, ... just so!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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Family Portrait in Black and White, about a group of black children in foster care in an insularly minded Ukraine, will be looking for more buzz, not only to attract international sales, but to possibly reach a wider audience back in Canada.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GUY DIXON 2011
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