separateness

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Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

The feeling of separateness fades away and, suddenly, you’re no longer an island.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

It was, after all, their home, with a long and colorful history and a strong sense of separateness from the Wise County seat across the mountains.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

“Not only are we physically separated from one another, we are culturally, socially and politically separated from each other, and the end to that separateness is not in sight,” Herzog said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas