set apart
Example Sentences
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By the end of her life, Morrison had been set apart as an icon and trailblazer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
And a lack of consensus too about how we can set apart the unpleasant, offensive, ugly and hateful things said online from those that are genuinely threatening or dangerous.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
In Arizona, too, guayule thrives amidst drought, its blue-green leaves set apart from dry dirt at a research and development farm operated by the tire company Bridgestone.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024
The Orphans, which are at least 500 years old, got their names because they are set apart from other sequoias in the grove.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
He had been silent, set apart from the violence of their emotion.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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