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segregate

[seg-ri-gayt, seg-ri-git, -gayt] / ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt, ˈsɛg rɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /


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On Friday, a federal appeals court declined the government's request to segregate the ballots.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"The only way to preserve the district court's ability to grant relief to the United States after a full merits proceeding, therefore, is to segregate the challenged ballots now," Sauer said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The model was trained to segregate the “pure news” in each article from that which was old and stale and, therefore, predictable.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026

His aim wasn’t to segregate black history from the national narrative but to force its inclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

“I guarantee, right now my dad would be asking how they’re going to gender segregate the dorms.”

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

Frustrating others, sadly, does little to instill joy and only further segregates Americans.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Having third-party services segregates these specific issues from the employer-employee relationship.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

The visual pathway segregates information from the two eyes so that one half of the visual field projects to the other side of the brain.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Turning to go in again, the three were confronted with the Norman segregates.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The death chamber was taken down and all but a handful of the remaining condemned inmates were relocated from segregated housing in San Quentin to other facilities across the state after Newsom’s 2019 moratorium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Her teacher didn’t repeatedly fail to show up because the school was segregated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Decades later she contributed to “Whites Remember Jim Crow,” a collection of reminiscences that accompanied a 2001 American RadioWorks documentary about racism in the segregated South.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Saar grew up in a partially segregated city and came of age in a society where Black women were expected to find practical work, not become artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Alabama’s public schools and facilities remained strictly segregated.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

The notion of segregating potentially suspect ballots is not a new issue for the Supreme Court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

At this World Cup, authorities didn’t bother segregating them, including at the potentially fractious semifinal between ancient enemies England and Argentina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

She feels mixed-gender cards rather than segregating the two codes will attract more interest.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025

Department of Justice sued Georgia for unnecessarily segregating people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024

But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison


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