separate
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Several aircraft parked at Dubai International were also hit in separate incidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Hoaxes can also come from copycats, he said, but "three days of incidents is too small a sample to separate coordination from contagion".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Jen and Zac also shared separate photos celebrating their daughter Nora’s 5th birthday on each of their Instagram Stories on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The first involved a “barbell” portfolio of semiconductor names and energy stocks, with barbell referring to a strategy of investing in two separate themes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
At that moment, John Masters and Tomás were trolling separate parts of Saint Petersburg.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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"It's peaceful now," the retired agent says as he stands in front of the enormous wall that separates the United States from Mexico, near the town of San Luis, Arizona.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
A multinational study found that people taking these drugs were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment, a condition in which the nail separates from the skin underneath it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Both Fida and Ismail lived close to the so-called Yellow Line that separates the areas occupied by the Israeli military in Gaza from areas controlled by Hamas in the west.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“This small space that separates Lkossa from the jungle is called the borderlands. That would be the most direct path into it. It’s also part of the Sons of the Six’s patrol route.”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Since very young children who go into care are more likely to be adopted than older children, there are concerns from experts that some may have been permanently separated from their birth families unnecessarily.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
New genetic evidence reveals unexpected links between populations separated by enormous distances, challenging the long-held idea that eastern and western European groups remained largely isolated from one another.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
But, outside of being born just a week or so apart before or after the 1933 deadline, little separated the Welsh pensioners his team analyzed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
The Emmy-nominated actor and the Grammy-winning musician, also known for collaborations with pop stars Taylor Swift and Lorde, separated in the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
No one expected it to be a problem because they had been separated for a long time.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
What began as a way to share our success became something more meaningful: an opportunity to dismantle barriers separating people from capital markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
The intense airflow strips molten material from its surface, producing droplets that continue to evaporate after separating from the main body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
What if his parents were separating because of the storm?
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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