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
And why should I restrict myself, segregate myself?
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
He studies the physics of velocity in relation to equine locomotion, and with an eye to withers, loins, hocks, and haunches, he segregates his brood mares and his stallions.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
Like Owens, Davis endured humiliations off the field: threats, insults, segregated hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
"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
Alabama’s public schools and facilities remained strictly segregated.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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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
It was launched in the 1970s by the federal government as an alternative to public housing projects, which were criticized for segregating poor families in neighborhoods with low-quality schools and other substandard services.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Stellema and other advocates are wary of segregating prisoners with disabilities, noting that the ADA is meant to ensure people can integrate with others, even in detention.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
"There's no point segregating ourselves. On that date we will have an audience, so why not educate them?"
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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