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segregate

verb as in discriminate and separate

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“But,” she added, “I’m very fearful that we are headed towards a less inclusive, less diverse and more segregated public school setting.”

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He spent six years in segregated housing, essentially isolation, after Baca said her client was wrongly labeled as a Mexican Mafia associate.

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For decades, these newly immigrated workers would be segregated into the neighborhoods surrounding the smokestack, he added, leading to the growth of a large multigenerational Mexican community.

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As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “Eleven o’clock on Sunday morning…is the most segregated hour in America.”

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While Soliman was initially slated to remain in segregated detention for some 20 days, he was released early.

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