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separation

[sep-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌsɛp əˈreɪ ʃən /


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This would reduce the amount of work required during the heating and separation stages while allowing facilities to continue using much of their current infrastructure.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

During their separation, Brandon moved back in with Markowski, she wrote, and moved out again a month before Downer filed the request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Keurig Dr Pepper KDP 2.73%increase; up pointing triangle logged higher profit and sales in the latest quarter, as the company invested more in its brands and worked toward its planned separation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

JDS Uniphase eventually unwound in a 2015 separation that left behind two businesses: Viavi Solutions, a maker of testing and monitoring equipment for networks, and Lumentum.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

My wife drove us to the airport in Manchester, through blowing snow, in the kind of awkward silence that precedes a long separation.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

And just a few weeks ago, civil rights lawyers joined with parents’ and children’s advocates to bring landmark class-action litigation to end illegal family separations.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The membranes could also benefit pharmaceutical production, where highly accurate separations are critical for product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

“This is one of the more important industrial separations, not because it is dramatic, but because it makes sense,” says The Edge research founder Jim Osman.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

The republic brings with it constitutional limits, separations of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan


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