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separate

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






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On Aug. 13, Judge Richard Stearns dismissed the government’s separate Title VI suit against Harvard, and Ms. Van Erem drapes herself in that decision.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The researchers also tested whether they could reproduce TOFA's effects with two separate compounds.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

The internet was rife with what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” a space separate from home and work that encouraged social interaction and bred cohesion in communities.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Joshua and Fury have separate contracts with Sela.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

“Sorry. I forgot to explain that there’s a separate entrance to our apartment. We live upstairs, above the shop. Ready?”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

MarketWatch: What separates people who want to be rich from those who actually become rich?

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

What separates him is how he knits attacks together.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

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

While they were crossing the strait which separates Europe and Asia, the girl, whose name was Helle, slipped and fell into the water.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

He was separated from his young son and spent more than 18 years incarcerated, all while maintaining his innocence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Once the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Using those results, the researchers developed a computational model that separated signals coming from different areas of the brain and revealed how the frontoparietal cortex brought that information together.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The living area exudes class thanks to it dual seating areas, which are separated by a fireplace and piano.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

A strip of sky separated it from the lake, but it was most definitely a patch of land with trees.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Astronomers made the measurements by separating each galaxy's light into a spectrum.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Military trucks sped across winding roads through farmland and quiet villages to one of Europe's most strategic borders, separating Poland and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

In the second quarter, the company worked to make its AI lending models better at separating low-risk customers from high-risk customers, according to CEO Paul Gu.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Hearn has maintained that he merely touched material that was already separating from the surface and did not cause any damage.

From Salon Aug. 1, 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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