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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

The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

And yet, "y'all" is a word that in and of itself integrates rather than segregates.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021

Admiral Ring renewed that effort last June, telling reporters that the current top-secret prison where the military segregates high-value detainees, called Camp 7, would become inadequate as the prisoners aged.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2019

The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2016

Man selects the variation that pleases him, eliminates or segregates the type that does not, and by following up the process eventually produces a distinct and fixed variation.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen

Have you restricted your speculative trading to a segregated account and a fixed amount of money?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

In a city that is multicultural but also segregated, Cooks said, “there are multiple art worlds,” and this “unprecedented project” puts them all in dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I thought about that mother as I read Nikole Hannah-Jones’s New York Times essay about her decision to send her daughter, Najya, to segregated, high-poverty public schools in Brooklyn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s book, American Apartheid, documents how racially segregated ghettos were deliberately created by federal policy, not impersonal market forces or private housing choices.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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 there are ways to provide support without segregating and grouping everybody with a disability into one place. We have a long way to go when it comes to that.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Once again Holmes’s method of segregating tasks and firing workers was proving successful.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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