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Luxus purchases bags that are already authenticated, with additional checks performed by a separate consultant and the firm’s resale partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
But the men don’t have a separate list; they are the list, she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
"So now it's practically said that they're going their separate ways."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
It feels like he’s quietly building a separate life with this money after three decades of “ours.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
For though they would be going in separate directions, almost certain never to meet again, they both felt a spark of warmth at the thought of home.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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State Drive, an ugly black roadway, separates the Science Center and its new addition from the park’s Rose Garden, and serves as a sad connector to the rest of the park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
Sliced Bread separates science fact from the marketing fiction.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I walk up the three steps to the altar and step over the small railing that separates the masses from all that is sacred.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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At one point they separated and the 21-year-old descended alone.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The couple briefly separated in 2025 after the first season of the reality show had aired, but later reconciled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The distance indicates that part of the aircraft separated before the plane hit the ground, according to federal investigators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In spring 1903, two of the separated groups reunited at a location later named Cape Well-met, near what now resembles the “forehead” of the island's giant skull.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
The doctor says Joey needs to be separated from Renato and their daughter, Cynthia.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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This boundary, called the horizon, would begin as a single structure before separating into two distinct branches.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
The dusk/dawn line separating the light and dark of sunlight’s path over the Earth is known as the terminator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
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
All good scents, Peter thought, separating them out.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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