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separate

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






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In a separate post, he shared a photo of Downer and her dog, Rex, and wrote in the caption that his sister was very attached to the dog and had last been seen in Koreatown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Metal recyclers—primarily targeting copper—have been harvesting what they can, but the rare-earth metals, harder to separate and less valuable, were going to waste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Whether that automatically confers a sustainably higher valuation for healthcare is an entirely separate issue, however.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

"You have five separate forces operating on the ground without a proper unifying chain of command," said Diego Da Rin, a Crisis Group analyst.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

It was like a separate little town sitting right on the harbor—different docks, warehouses for fish and cargo, a salmon cannery where fish were cut up and packed into cans.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

And the only thing that separates his experience from the tens of thousands of desperate people he left behind in the camp is the fact someone believed in him enough to give him a chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The MDL is the border within the DMZ that separates the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

The new approach instead separates information from different regions, allowing researchers to identify atmospheric variations that would otherwise be concealed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Both Fida and Ismail lived close to the so-called Yellow Line that separates the areas occupied by the Israeli military in Gaza from areas controlled by Hamas in the west.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Caleb helps me sit up and separates the hems of his two shirts, pulling the long-sleeved one over his head and offering it to me.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

The Emmy-nominated actor and the Grammy-winning musician, also known for collaborations with pop stars Taylor Swift and Lorde, separated in the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"It's like the sky fell in and crushed me", she says of being separated from her daughter.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Check out what separated the true locals from the pack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Three geographically separated cultures have described the same highly specific hallucinations, and DNA testing has linked two of those cases to a single mushroom species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Over the course of the decade, a series of space missions confirmed that the idea of having a launch vehicle that separated from the mother ship would, in fact, work.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

At the beginning of 2025, Hammond announced that he and his wife Mindy, who share two children, were separating, just three months after his father died of cancer.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Another is the challenge of separating materials cost-effectively so the sought-after rare earths can be isolated, ground up and turned into metal for new magnets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Vampire facials involve drawing a patient's blood and then separating out platelet-rich plasma from it using a centrifuge.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

We’re also driving on the line separating lanes on the road instead of between them.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan


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