'insulate' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of protecting something or someone from an outside influence, such as heat, cold, sound, or electricity. For example, "We insulated our home with extra insulation to keep it warm during the winter months."
She then went a step further by matching Burnham's position on the deficit, suggesting that the Labour government could have done more to insulate the country from the financial crash.
In fact, schools' protectiveness can sometimes insulate children from the real world and so make the move to the next stage of their lives more difficult, the researchers point out.
The FA hopes the fixture will insulate it from further attacks by Warner and that when the 24 executive committee members vote for the 2018 host nation, the visit will be remembered by him and the two other Concacaf representatives.
Energy - A commitment to take carbon emissions out of the economy by 2025 and through Green investment banks to allow communities to insulate 5 million homes over 10 years.
We cannot insulate ourselves completely, but we must do all we can to protect ourselves from a global downturn.
Losing his seat after 32 years was painful for him, but it was always unlikely that, popular as he was locally, he could insulate himself from a national trend of seismic proportions.
Newquay zoo, which houses 149 different species and a total of 534 animals attracting 200,000 visitors a year, says that it plans to fully insulate all its older buildings over the next 12 months.
The Italian authorities have gone to enormous lengths to avoid trouble and to insulate the summit participants from the many thousands of protesters now in Genoa.
To insulate itself from rising power prices, BASF generates a lot of its own electricity at its enormous complex in Ludwigshafen, in south-western Germany.
Fairtrade's price-adjustment mechanism is intended to insulate small producers from volatile commodity markets and the free-trading, no-holds-barred capitalism that multinational companies espouse.
But they raised an alarming question: if accountants cannot follow rules separating their own financial interests from their clients', how can they be trusted to insulate their firms' corporate interests?Quis custodiet?That question has always been asked about the integrity of audits.
