segregation

Gender segregation is standard practice for many Orthodox Jews but is forbidden in public places by the government of socially liberal Tel Aviv.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Derenoncourt has found that Black Americans who migrated north to growing cities in the 20th century achieved economic gains—but their descendants experienced increasing school segregation and incarceration rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

However, Kolisi, South Africa's first black captain, also referenced 1976's Soweto Uprising - the student protests that were a turning point in the fight against apartheid, the state-backed racial segregation of South African society.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Constitutional law was reshaped by the campaign to outlaw segregation, by the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, and by the campaign for constitutionally protected same-sex marriage.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

It made things clear, it clarified motives and it certainly lifted the entire matter above segregation and desegregation.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

The social segregations of “District 9” become filters when we leave the theater that allow us to see our own world in sharper focus.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2016

In England toleration has become an institution, and where Tory and Socialist, Bishop and Infidel, can all meet at the same dinner-table and spend an agreeable week-end together, there is no need for defensive segregations.

From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Through Mendelian combinations and segregations it would by cross-breeding be spread and gradually introduced into more and more strains of the general population.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

And these segregations, based primarily on a difference in moral ideas and pursuits and ideals, will probably round off and complete themselves at last as distinct and separate cultures.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It has been demonstrated many times that the ordinary grades of bessemer screw stock are unsatisfactory for aviation purposes, due to the presence of excessive amounts of unevenly distributed phosphorus and sulphide segregations.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin