separation
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Santa Fe Springs confirmed Medina’s employment but said it could not comment on the circumstances surrounding an employee’s separation from the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a celebrity couple going through a heavily litigated, tabloid-fodder separation in this delectably entertaining eight-part series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
President Emmanuel Macron met Pope Leo on Friday, but did not attend Saturday's events, largely to avoid appearing to breach France's strict rules on the separation of Church and state.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Better separation methods can therefore reveal substances that were present all along but were difficult to distinguish using less powerful techniques.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
To the physicists, the separation and purification of radioisotopes seemed a black art; but it was well within the capabilities of a graduate chemist.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
There's only one drawback: "long separations from the family during assignments," he says from Kosovo, where he is helping install a wind farm.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing separation
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