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segregation

[seg-ri-gey-shuhn] / ˌsɛg rɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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One state he found surprising was Alabama, a place many in the UK associate with racial segregation and the struggle for civil rights as well as its pioneering space exploration programmes.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Well, thank God the Dodgers broke baseball’s longstanding tradition of segregation long before Roberts, who is Black and Japanese American, was born!

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Most notably, they permit sex segregation in school athletics by sometimes requiring the creation of boys’ teams and girls’ teams.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2026

Those interactions lead to a process called "mass segregation."

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 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

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

Pratt as basic segregations from an igneous magma.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

The same diagram equally well represents the pairings and segregations of chromosomes.

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

Magnetites containing titanium, which prevents their use at the present time, are known in many parts of the world as segregations in basic igneous rocks.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith




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