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US
/ˌaɪsəˈɫeɪʃənəst/
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[ UK /ˌaɪsəlˈeɪʃənˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /ˌaɪsəlˈeɪʃənˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
- an advocate of isolationism in international affairs
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to isolationism
How To Use isolationist In A Sentence
- Isolationists killed the measure as an overcommitment of American power and prestige.
- Political attacks only work if they hook into what voters already believe: Newt is an anger-bomb, Ron Paul is an irritable isolationist, Rick Santorum is a dweeby bedroom-policeman, Mitt Romney is a computer from the future sent to eliminate the need for humans. Johnny Depp, the Obamas and that Halloween party | Ana Marie Cox
- rabid isolationist
- The Republican leadership has clearly decided to resist the isolationist label.
- Inside every neocon is an isolationist bursting to get out. Times, Sunday Times
- None of the children there had a private room; since each of them worked basically alone for six hours every day, the Institute insisted upon shared rooms as a way of counteracting the propensity toward isolationistic traits that could so easily develop in their scholarly young minds. The Three-Minute Universe
- Dublin - completely rammed, which is impressive considering one of the teams is an isolationist communist state. RTÉ News
- Indeed, contrary to the hopes raised by some of Obama's admirers in the anti-war movement -- or the fears stirred up in his neoconservative bashers -- Obama was not a closet peacenik, an isolationist, a "third worldist" or an "Arabist;" and his positions on Arab-Israeli issues reflected a view shared by most of his predecessors in office. Leon T. Hadar: Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive Towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana
- The isolationist/internationalist dialectical opposition is often expressed in terms of American exceptionalism.
- : We have often been called insular, and isolationist,: Aroon replied. Magic's Price