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separate

[sep-uh-rayt, sep-er-it] / ˈsɛp əˌreɪt, ˈsɛp ər ɪt /






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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

Two of his former ministers, including Seszták, and the former central bank chief Gyorgy Matolcsy have been under arrest since September over accusations of graft in separate investigations.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The UN court case and ASEAN's diplomatic dilemma are separate issues on paper.

From Barron's ● 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

“I just wanted to know if CPS will separate us if my mom doesn’t…you know, come back.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

"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

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the telecommunications outages affected both radios controllers use to communicate with pilots, or also radar that they need to keep planes safely separated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Their dad and I separated when the boys were 2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Finding organic material at such widely separated locations suggests that the chemistry associated with life's building blocks may once have been common across the Martian landscape.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

As Roz marched back, she cut through a strip of forest that separated the two farms.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

She noticed white powder had started separating from his forehead.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 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

Additional research will be necessary to determine whether the same cellular mechanisms operate in humans and whether separating brain rewiring from psychedelic effects can produce effective treatments for depression, PTSD, or other psychiatric disorders.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Familiar hyena-like laughter reaches us from the bank of printers and photocopiers along the half wall separating the checkout area and the book stacks.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali


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