separateness
Example Sentences
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Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
The feeling of separateness fades away and, suddenly, you’re no longer an island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
“Not only are we physically separated from one another, we are culturally, socially and politically separated from each other, and the end to that separateness is not in sight,” Herzog said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
The normal way we act in the world fosters an attitude of separateness and causes us to act against nature or in ways that resist the natural way.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
