segregate
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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
Professors collaborated with the directors of the campus art museum and instructors in the social sciences and business departments, to demonstrate that knowledge is impossible to segregate or compartmentalize.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
To cut and dig up mushrooms, “you need a knife, and you need to segregate your specimens from each other,” Hudgins said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
They weren’t very subtle with their attempts to segregate us or at making a safe space for people of color, but the truth was, I appreciated the sisterhood we’d formed.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
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
The conventional narrative of U.S. history routinely segregates the “Indian wars” as a subspecialization within the dubious category “the West.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2014
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
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
Eric Johnson said this ethos had its roots in his childhood in the segregated city of Chicago, where George grew up and where Black-owned businesses worked with one another; one company’s success fed the others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
"It brought a lot of people together in a very kind of segregated world that we're living in," said Zeileen Reardon, who spoke while watching the team play Morocco in a bar in Calgary.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Dementia has historically been a hidden disease in which affected individuals are sequestered at home or segregated in day programs or institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I look around as people take seats in our segregated sections—South Asian, African American, Arab, Southeast Asian.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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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
“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
Not only did Naidorf not lose his job, he says, but the company ceased segregating its locker rooms and drinking fountains after that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Despite losing a lot of ground she had to install "a permanent fence which is segregating those members of the public who do not respect what we do on the farm".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
“People aren’t even forcing us to sit apart, and we’re still segregating ourselves.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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