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segregate

verb as in discriminate and separate

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As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “Eleven o’clock on Sunday morning…is the most segregated hour in America.”

From Salon

While Soliman was initially slated to remain in segregated detention for some 20 days, he was released early.

From Salon

This means that Democratic and Republican voters are segregated from each other geographically, with Democrats tending toward big cities and suburbs, and Republicans occupying rural areas.

From Salon

He said that he identified with them because of his upbringing in racially segregated Richmond in the US state of Virginia.

From BBC

During his campaign, Lee promised to segregate South Korea’s fast-depleting national pension by age, a move he said would relieve younger South Koreans of the burden of subsidizing the older generation’s retirement.

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