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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of island.

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Examples

  • I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded!

    Promo 2009

  • I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded!

    Open Thread: #419 Someone To Watch Over Me 2009

  • Microgrids, which are "islanded" power generation and distribution zones that can operate autonomously from the larger electrical grid, are an increasing area of focus for institutions, governments, corporations, and utilities.

    Industry Analyst Reporter News 2010

  • Microgrids that enable "islanded" power generation and distribution will be another important growth market in the coming years, with $7.8 billion in cumulative investment by

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration.

    Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010

  • Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

    VARIANTS: ISLANDED IN A STREAM OF STARS - PREVIEW radii 2009

  • The house sits at a dizzy 174 feet above sea level, enough to keep my patch islanded when the promised flood comes.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The house sits at a dizzy 174 feet above sea level, enough to keep my patch islanded when the promised flood comes.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I just ordered the book "The Outermost House" from which they pulled the phrase "islanded in a stream of stars".

    Canadian Preview Islanded In a Stream of Stars 2009

  • Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

    Archive 2009-03-01 radii 2009

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