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
“I guarantee, right now my dad would be asking how they’re going to gender segregate the dorms.”
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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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
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
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
But Mr. Steele believes an honest conversation would acknowledge the real progress America has made since the days when schools and water fountains were segregated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
Michaela Rafferty, who works with the Anaka Women's Collective helping migrant women, said people arrive in Northern Ireland without an understanding of the complexity of division – or how housing is segregated along sectarian lines.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Though the schools were segregated, sometimes Colored and White children would play together after classes let out, as they had when we’d lived back at Dutch Run.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
Department of Justice sued Georgia for unnecessarily segregating people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 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
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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