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
It was, after all, their home, with a long and colorful history and a strong sense of separateness from the Wise County seat across the mountains.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 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
Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
