setting apart
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In 1910, a sign was placed at Madison Junction announcing, “Here was first suggested the idea of setting apart this region as a National Park.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022
Also setting apart the Spirit Awards from the many other awards shows is that they give away actual money.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2015
Something else has been setting apart this new restaurant, which only recently moved to its permanent location on Delancey Street.
From Forbes • Nov. 4, 2014
It is polite, formal and at times anachronistic, linguistically setting apart a man who frequently struggles to sell himself to the American electorate.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012
The setting apart of a day, fixed by the Church or varying according to private anniversaries, for the special commemoration of the dead, is a world-wide custom.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn