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Under the now-scrapped June road map, a separate faculty work group was to examine whether the 15 courses needed to change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
ALTER: Everyone should have a stall shower, separate from the tub.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
He warned of a "spillover" of fighting from separate insurgencies in the neighbouring Sahel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
This allows scientists to compare samples from different layers within the same core, as well as samples taken from cores in separate locations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
When he was done, the next speaker, an Englishman who ran a separate fund at FrontPoint, was slow to respond.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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NIRSpec separates infrared light into its component wavelengths, allowing scientists to determine how gas is moving, what it is made of, and how its properties vary across a region.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
What separates Dean from the U.K. pop-soul tradition she emerged from, though, is the simple fact that she has hits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
McKinsey appointed Andrew Pickersgill as its new board chair, a move that separates the chair and global managing partner role at the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
That distinction is what separates these trips from ordinary vacations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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"Older generations separated political life from everyday life," said Joyojeet Pal, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies technology and society.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
According to Page Six, the reality television personalities have separated after 27 years of marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Although not quite a situation of being separated at birth, this Asa still poses a similar challenge for Yuru.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Families live and work under the same roof, often separated from mountains of waste by little more than a staircase or curtain, exposing them to foul odours, plastic fumes and other health risks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
I kept to the solid walkway that stretched along the rink, separated by narrow pillars.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
They showed fewer signs of separating or becoming unusually thick.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
"At the end of the bunkbeds there was a piece of cardboard, separating the toilet. Gareth never sat still, he would have found that absolutely claustrophobic."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even so, when Paul told me that he and his partner were separating, my jaw hit the ground, taking a stray piece of grilled chicken with it.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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