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separate

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






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The chips will be financed through a separate vendor-financing deal Anthropic struck with Broadcom, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

A separate party source confirmed there was a review going on internally into the party's social media operation, but would not be drawn on whether that meant changing who had oversight of Polanski's posts.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Their results showed that deeply lobed leaves evolved independently several times in separate branches of the Scalesia family tree.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

Key details: A separate measure of inflation that strips out energy, known as the core rate, rose a smaller than expected 0.1% in June.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 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

MarketWatch: What separates a bold investment from a reckless one?

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

A spectrum separates light into its component wavelengths, allowing astronomers to investigate the chemistry and motion of distant objects.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

The rupture, Schmitz said, raced up from the valley down to the sea, where movement was transferred to the San Sebastián fault, which separates the Caribbean plate from the South American plate.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2026

Separately on Tuesday, China’s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, sailed through the Taiwan Strait, its second voyage since December through the 100-mile-wide waterway that separates Taiwan’s main island from the Asian mainland.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Prison staff reportedly separated the two men and Combs was placed in solitary confinement.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The new findings provide firm dates for two black images, a bison and a masklike figure, and reveal that parts of the artwork were created during widely separated periods.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

"There is also concern about families being separated."

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Police separated the two groups, each made up of hundreds of protesters.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Even when they were separated by a wall of drawings and deadlines, she was still there.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Roberts, who has also talked about separating the visit from politics, kept his review brief.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Child psychologists had previously told the BBC that separating young children from their caregivers could have a lifelong impact on their mental health.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Centrifuges are machines that are used to spin uranium gas, separating isotopes to enrich the material for civilian nuclear energy or potential weapons production.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The lesson is that hype and quality are not the same thing, and public markets have a way of separating them.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

Every measurement—every angle and width, all the spaces separating the molecules—was nearly perfect.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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