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The internet was rife with what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” a space separate from home and work that encouraged social interaction and bred cohesion in communities.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
One challenge facing the Sussexes on their return is that they are once more associated with the Royal Family from which they have tried to stay separate, says Stephen.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
They next applied the clock to a separate group of 144 people to estimate each person's 'brain age'.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
It is then piped into a small hillside plant, where it passes through three separate pools and is treated to eliminate pollutants and extract the rare earths in concentrated form.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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"When that is the focus, there's more that we have in common than we have that separates us," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
What separates those who last from those who fade away?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The breakwater that separates Ceuta from Morocco, long regarded as ineffective, was left just as it was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
One of the most important is the gate dielectric, which electrically separates the gate electrode from the transistor channel.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Tu Celia Celia’s Letters: 1942-1949 101 February 11, 1949 Mi querido Gustavo, I’ve been reading the plays of Moliere and wondering what separates suffering from imagination.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Once the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The researchers reasoned that nanoparticles could be separated from the reaction mixture through centrifugation, which could make it easier to recover the DNA afterward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The living area exudes class thanks to it dual seating areas, which are separated by a fireplace and piano.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
These tensions shaped Doley's belief that conservation could not be separated from the rights of local communities.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
What had I done to be separated from people this way?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Military trucks sped across winding roads through farmland and quiet villages to one of Europe's most strategic borders, separating Poland and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
As transistor components approach atomic dimensions, however, the interfaces separating different materials become increasingly important.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
In the second quarter, the company worked to make its AI lending models better at separating low-risk customers from high-risk customers, according to CEO Paul Gu.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Hearn has maintained that he merely touched material that was already separating from the surface and did not cause any damage.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
I worked at separating the keys in her typewriter.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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