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separating

noun as in threshing

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The two sides taunted and insulted each other but with police separating them no violence broke out.

Last week, just before willfully separating themselves from each other, they told each other, “I love you.”

To unwind, Sharp takes long showers, and stops himself from separating his food on his plate as Christopher would.

The basic approach went as planned: after separating from the Rosetta orbiter, Philae coasted slowly to the comet surface.

Of course, the study makes a point of separating the religiously conservative from the politically conservative.

He was soon very quick in separating the fibres from the pulp and spreading them out to dry before packing.

On the western side of the hills of Cape Bowen there is a track of low land, separating them from another rocky range.

We have already described panning, the crudest manner of separating gold from gravel.

A few paces separating them they crossed the great hall, and she leisurely passed into the corridor without.

They asked: Should I weep in the fifth month separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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