separable

Example Sentences

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Clinical researchers have found that “decision fatigue” is a distinct form of expenditure, separable from the other physical or cognitive loads.

From Washington Post

Analytically, Biden is compartmentalizing Iran’s nuclear program in one silo and its terrorist activities in another, treating them as separable and unrelated.

From Washington Post

This is known as technical-social dualism, the idea that the technical and social dimensions of engineering problems are readily separable and remain distinct throughout the problem-definition and solution process.

From Scientific American

This “analysis” made no room for the complexity of cultural influences, and reduced me to a collection of separable Chinese and American parts, somehow symbolic of the United States and China as rival political entities.

From Washington Post

Those who defend Depp's "art" often rely on the tired argument that someone's private behaviors — as if all allegations of abuse are as casual as "private behaviors" — and their work are somehow separable.

From Salon