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segregation

[seg-ri-gey-shuhn] / ˌsɛg rɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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“You think of segregation as history, but it’s something they lived through,” her classmate Shiloh Durrett, 19, said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Ralph Bunche, the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat and civil rights leader, connected the fight against American segregation to the broader struggle for human rights and peace around the world.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Jet fuel is a complex product because of its transportation, segregation and storage requirements, and the dire consequences of a potential airplane-engine malfunction.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Traditionally, this system is linked to plasmid segregation and had only been found on plasmids, which are mobile genetic elements.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

Blacks were cautiously hopeful that this might be the end of segregation.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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