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separate

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






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Less is known about GM’s separate push into weapons production with Lockheed Martin, but GM has stressed that it plans to invest in adjacent businesses in a capital-efficient way.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Executives have also discussed creating a separate sales entity to handle exports from Tesla’s Shanghai plant, one of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

He explained that ServiceNow has made it its specialty to lodge itself between a number of different applications and connect separate software platforms, which sets the company up to implement agents across an organization.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

A separate party source confirmed there was a review going on internally into the party's social media operation, but would not be drawn on whether that meant changing who had oversight of Polanski's posts.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

At that moment, John Masters and Tomás were trolling separate parts of Saint Petersburg.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

The Tour has fixed something in Paris: taking what used to be a mostly-dull pedal around the cobbles of the Champs-Élysées and adding a riotous, repeat ascent which separates the best riders from the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

A spectrum separates light into its component wavelengths, allowing astronomers to investigate the chemistry and motion of distant objects.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

The rupture, Schmitz said, raced up from the valley down to the sea, where movement was transferred to the San Sebastián fault, which separates the Caribbean plate from the South American plate.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2026

That distinction is what separates these trips from ordinary vacations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

At once, I release the splendor as it erupts, thundering loudly before it separates from me and my blade to seep back into the earth.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Prison staff reportedly separated the two men and Combs was placed in solitary confinement.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

A woman who has been on a 10-year IVF journey is calling for fertility and gynaecology appointments to be separated from maternity services in some hospitals following her "heartbreaking" experience.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

"There is also concern about families being separated."

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

One especially important transition separated regions dominated by amyloid-β plaques from those associated with tau pathology and neurodegeneration.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Part of the way we walked beside a small woods, separated only by a roll of barbed wire from a glistening world of dewdrops.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

At Lakehouse, the interns spent two hours on “Mission KPMG,” a scavenger hunt with eight activities, including separating AI-generated fact from fiction, as well as matching the firm’s AI tools to the best-use case.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Roberts, who has also talked about separating the visit from politics, kept his review brief.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

They showed fewer signs of separating or becoming unusually thick.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

“The goal of separating the publication of the report from our earnings results is to keep the focus on our primary financial metrics — revenue and operating profit,” Netflix said in its letter to shareholders.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

Mamou had this stained glass partition separating the living room from the dining room, and the light filtering through it cast constellations of color across my family’s faces.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram




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