segregation
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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
In 1968, England were due to tour South Africa, a country then operating under a system of racial segregation known as apartheid.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Over the next two days, Wense Grabarek recruited members for a committee assigned the task of resolving the segregation issue.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
The same diagram equally well represents the pairings and segregations of chromosomes.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
But even in America I think the trend of things is away from separations and segregations and new starts, and towards more comprehensive and graduated methods of development.
From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Certain minerals, such as magnetite, ilmenite, spinel, corundum, etc., are often found as primary segregations within the mass of igneous rock.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
In these rocks it occurs both as disseminated grains, and as stringers, and large irregular masses which probably represent magmatic segregations.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
Vocabulary lists containing segregation
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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