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separate

[sep-uh-rayt, sep-er-it] / ˈsɛp əˌreɪt, ˈsɛp ər ɪt /






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Within the cosseted walls of ZZs and Chez Margaux, concierge services and matchmakers do everything from making sure the table is far enough away from its neighbors to coordinating separate entrances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

Two of his former ministers, including Seszták, and the former central bank chief Gyorgy Matolcsy have been under arrest since September over accusations of graft in separate investigations.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

In a separate statement, Manila said it expected the trade pact to be completed in the coming year.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

By "carving out" this tiny atomic cluster and treating it like a separate molecule, Martirez can use powerful computational methods that chemists have spent decades refining.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

There is not a dump or landfill to take our trash to and so we separate it— organic, inorganic—and deal with it ourselves.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Brennan also raised concerns about security in the Mozambique Channel, which separates Mozambique and Madagascar from mainland Africa and is an important route for international shipping and trade.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

It also separates institutions that can afford to verify their degrees from those that can’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

And the only thing that separates his experience from the tens of thousands of desperate people he left behind in the camp is the fact someone believed in him enough to give him a chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The MDL is the border within the DMZ that separates the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He had gone to San Francisco for the books he needed and had written for a number of separates.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

SpaceX identified an issue after the booster separated from the spacecraft, and the booster was diverted to crash into the waters near the launchpad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Finding organic material at such widely separated locations suggests that the chemistry associated with life's building blocks may once have been common across the Martian landscape.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

In 2015 a girlfriend and I spent a few months separated by an ocean, during a period when my depression was consuming me.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

In her letter, Bagula explained that when families are separated, displaced, detained or removed from their communities, schools are often left to respond to the resulting trauma and educational disruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

The kitchen and sitting area were at the front of the house, separated by cupboards and a tall, precarious bookshelf that was Papa’s most prized possession.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Last year, the company revealed plans to split in two, separating its global condiments and North America grocery businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Nevertheless, Hyde-Smith’s team insisted that separating affidavit ballots is required by Mississippi law and federal law, so that each one “can be verified.”

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

According to Ostfeld, the extensive data collected over the years have been essential for separating meaningful ecological patterns from coincidences and statistical fluctuations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

She noticed white powder had started separating from his forehead.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

He pressed his back against the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, and stood still.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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