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The team used n-hexane, a solvent widely employed to separate fats from other materials.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Lines says it wants to build a new vessel or convert an existing ship into a floating data center moored in a port, powered either from shore or by a separate power ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The UN court case and ASEAN's diplomatic dilemma are separate issues on paper.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
There was also pressure on the Commerce Department to add it to the list, but separate reporting in the Financial Times said the department was delaying efforts to have the cloud computing firm included.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
In another Brown decision in 1955, the court ruled that the dismantling of separate school systems must happen with “all deliberate speed.”
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Brennan also raised concerns about security in the Mozambique Channel, which separates Mozambique and Madagascar from mainland Africa and is an important route for international shipping and trade.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
It also separates institutions that can afford to verify their degrees from those that can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It's peaceful now," the retired agent says as he stands in front of the enormous wall that separates the United States from Mexico, near the town of San Luis, Arizona.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
And the only thing that separates his experience from the tens of thousands of desperate people he left behind in the camp is the fact someone believed in him enough to give him a chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hence seven years’ distance in time and focus now separates me from GGS’s writing.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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She and I had separated that morning at Miami International Airport after a trans-Atlantic cruise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
To investigate this process, Cole and his colleagues developed an experiment that separated the surviving cancer cells from the molecules they released.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
In 2015 a girlfriend and I spent a few months separated by an ocean, during a period when my depression was consuming me.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
Paul said materials are often separated and recycled afterwards.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
If he and Pili had never been separated and never put into the System, would Danny have ever known magic was real?
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Markets appear to be separating Nvidia’s company-specific governance crisis from the broader artificial-intelligence trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Nevertheless, Hyde-Smith’s team insisted that separating affidavit ballots is required by Mississippi law and federal law, so that each one “can be verified.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
This allows them to pass through an energy barrier separating the metal tip from the silver surface, even though classical physics predicts they should not have enough energy to cross it.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Vance's statement seemed like "a way of separating himself from Trump," said Daniel Byman, a foreign policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Ophie nodded and quickly stripped the bed, separating the sheets and blankets out just like Cook had shown her so they could be laundered later.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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