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About a month after going dark, Cooper announced on her YouTube channel that she had sought a solo deal with Portnoy and secured separate representation from Franklyn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Their approach uses a modular design in which individual physical processes can be represented by separate trained neural networks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 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
But Trump is not scheduled to have a separate one-on-one with Putin.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
I wish we were in separate rooms, texting.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Two college students in June were reportedly also trapped in the keyhole at Panther State Beach, an opening in the rock that separates it from Yellow Bank Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
To the east, the Adriatic Sea separates Italy from the partially visible Balkan Peninsula.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
There's just one crown, though, and you can hear the crowd's confusion -whose head will he place it on? -until President Snow gives it a twist and it separates into two halves.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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"They will be separated by just 1.2 degrees, or roughly the width of a finger held at arm's length," according to Gideon Bendavid-Walker, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
SpaceX identified an issue after the booster separated from the spacecraft, and the booster was diverted to crash into the waters near the launchpad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Even when the head and shoulders were anatomically separated, the structure of the backbone would have severely restricted movement.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 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
Then he followed Mom through the door that separated the waiting room from the back and watched as she took her white coat from its hook.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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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
In this case, however, the same phenomenon made the membrane highly effective at separating different molecules.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
To make matters worse, Ma seems incapable of separating home and school.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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