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Hundreds of Syrian troops have already been deployed to both sides of the border, according to three separate Yemeni military sources and a defence official, with more to come.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
In Europe's ecological past, trees, meadows, shrubs, and grazing animals were not necessarily separate parts of nature.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
And it was our first look at how he would attempt to balance his day job with his need to separate himself from his day job.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2026
“It’s sad,” he said, because it “will separate the Mona Lisa from the other Leonardo da Vinci paintings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
“But they had to separate from their families. The three mathematicians got in a motorcar and sped south. A French embassy official in Romania gave them train tickets to France.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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It also separates institutions that can afford to verify their degrees from those that can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The prophet puppets float “behind this warped glass, which is slightly abstracted and a bit more magical, and separates you from them in a really interesting way with reflections and inks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The MDL is the border within the DMZ that separates the two countries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The choice of cathode material, or how the electrolyte – which separates cathode and anode – is formulated are key details influencing the performance and longevity of sodium ion batteries.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The ability to make art is one of our most distinctive features, for it separates us from all other creatures across an evolutionary gap that is unbridgeable.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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The rings remain clearly separated, creating an unusual structure that scientists are now trying to explain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
He also praised Trump for her work on reuniting children separated from their families by the war.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The distance indicates that part of the aircraft separated before the plane hit the ground, according to federal investigators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
“There were lines to get bread and milk. Our family got visas and we got out. But, I was separated from my mom for four years.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Vance's statement seemed like "a way of separating himself from Trump," said Daniel Byman, a foreign policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
This boundary, called the horizon, would begin as a single structure before separating into two distinct branches.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Instead, the achievement serves as a powerful reminder of the enormous distances separating objects in the universe and the remarkable endurance of a spacecraft launched nearly half a century ago.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Yaroslavsky described some of the board members as “very talented,” including its president, Steve Kang, and she acknowledges that separating aspects in the measure would have allowed a more focused conversation on public works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
My eyes dart from the edge of the bed, to the flashing images on the TV, to the door separating us from a herd of loud strangers.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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