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segregate

[seg-ri-geyt, seg-ri-git, -geyt] / ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt, ˈsɛg rɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /


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The model was trained to segregate the “pure news” in each article from that which was old and stale and, therefore, predictable.

From MarketWatch Jul. 4, 2026

His aim wasn’t to segregate black history from the national narrative but to force its inclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

Professors collaborated with the directors of the campus art museum and instructors in the social sciences and business departments, to demonstrate that knowledge is impossible to segregate or compartmentalize.

From Salon Mar. 16, 2024

In ferroelectric materials, molecules are polarized, and they also segregate and align based on polarization.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2023

The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2023

And yet, "y'all" is a word that in and of itself integrates rather than segregates.

From Salon Feb. 7, 2021

Admiral Ring renewed that effort last June, telling reporters that the current top-secret prison where the military segregates high-value detainees, called Camp 7, would become inadequate as the prisoners aged.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2019

The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.

From Washington Times Dec. 16, 2016

He studies the physics of velocity in relation to equine locomotion, and with an eye to withers, loins, hocks, and haunches, he segregates his brood mares and his stallions.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

"It brought a lot of people together in a very kind of segregated world that we're living in," said Zeileen Reardon, who spoke while watching the team play Morocco in a bar in Calgary.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Refiners have to follow very precise sets of specifications for jet fuel, and also have to make sure the product is completely segregated from other derivatives and adequately stored.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

Here’s a simple checklist: Have I segregated this account from my long-term investments?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

The artistic director could not yet confirm who would direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a former Negro League baseball player and his family navigating life in 1950s segregated Pittsburgh.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2026

Beginning in 1960, black high school and college students staged sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters and restaurants in more than a hundred Southern cities.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

At this World Cup, authorities didn’t bother segregating them, including at the potentially fractious semifinal between ancient enemies England and Argentina.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Department of Justice sued Georgia for unnecessarily segregating people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2024

Not only did Naidorf not lose his job, he says, but the company ceased segregating its locker rooms and drinking fountains after that.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2023

Despite losing a lot of ground she had to install "a permanent fence which is segregating those members of the public who do not respect what we do on the farm".

From BBC Jul. 25, 2023

But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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