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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

incidente isolado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩ.siˈdẽ.tʃi i.zuˈla.du

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Isolated incident/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.tɪd ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O banco garantiu que a falha foi um incidente isolado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An occurrence that happens only once and is not connected to other similar events or a larger trend.

    "The airline assured passengers that the computer glitch was an isolated incident and will not happen again."
  2. 2

    A singular, exceptional case of a problem or misbehavior that does not reflect systemic issues.

    "Management treated the employee dispute as an isolated incident rather than a sign of workplace toxicity."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'isolated', derived from the Italian 'isolato' (made into an island, from Latin 'insula'), with 'incident', originating from Latin 'incidere' (to fall upon, happen). Together, the phrase gained prominence in 20th-century journalistic and bureaucratic discourse to characterize events that occur separately from any broader pattern.

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