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separate

[sep-uh-rayt, sep-er-it] / ˈsɛp əˌreɪt, ˈsɛp ər ɪt /






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The tanker headed for New York shortly after US special envoy Steve Witkoff held separate talks with Zelensky and Putin this week, with both agreeing to resume Ukraine-Russia-US talks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

In a separate Finra action in July 2025, Roberts was barred from the securities industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

This arrangement allows different parts of the LC to influence separate brain functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

After Esther’s soul-searching decision to separate, the third season of the show, now streaming, tracks the fallout of their life apart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The short winter day was fading; I could no longer separate the words on the page.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The MDL is the border within the DMZ that separates the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

A multinational study found that people taking these drugs were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment, a condition in which the nail separates from the skin underneath it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

In June, business applications from Gen Z customers grew disproportionately from a year earlier, Bowley said, as did payments to open limited-liability companies, a business structure that separates personal and financial assets and liabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sliced Bread separates science fact from the marketing fiction.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

From here I can see all of downtown Los Angeles, as well as many of its surrounding sectors, and the thin rim of land that separates the enormous lake from the Pacific Ocean.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Price and Hayler separated in 2018, and later divorced in 2021.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Remarkably, the separated corals still returned to full health within seven weeks, the same amount of time required by corals that remained connected throughout the experiment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

In a lab at the Center for DNA Identification in Hanoi last week, technicians carefully cut into bone fragments separated from remains to extract samples for DNA analysis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Whether or not you think she’s guilty of fraud, she is about to be separated from her infant and toddler until they’re in grade school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“What was it like when you saw Mami again after being separated for so long?”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

S&P Global’s seasonally adjusted flash Australia PMI composite output index fell to 47.7 in October from 51.3 in September, dropping below the neutral 50 mark separating growth from contraction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

There is no single fix, but some options include handing off U.S. bottling, or, even more dramatically, separating the drinks business through a sale or spinoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

“I started thinking about this in a way that I think was separating me from the pain of what was happening,” Crystal told the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"I had hoped SOS would apologise and offer support, to compensate me for the harm they caused by separating me from my family," Omama Ghbeis said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Before separating, though, he gave Brooklyn a pep talk as they walked along the platform next to the train.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti


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