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

“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 normal way we act in the world fosters an attitude of separateness and causes us to act against nature or in ways that resist the natural way.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Mathee, at the South African Medical Research Council, said seeing covid-19 and influenza as distinct was important for research, but that their separateness presented its own danger.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling—the reminder of intimacy.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez