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segregate

[seg-ri-gayt, seg-ri-git, -gayt] / ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt, ˈsɛg rɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /


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On Friday, a federal appeals court declined the government's request to segregate the ballots.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"The only way to preserve the district court's ability to grant relief to the United States after a full merits proceeding, therefore, is to segregate the challenged ballots now," Sauer said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The model was trained to segregate the “pure news” in each article from that which was old and stale and, therefore, predictable.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026

His aim wasn’t to segregate black history from the national narrative but to force its inclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

The island had one hospital, and it was difficult to segregate us from the general prisoners while we were there.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023

Having third-party services segregates these specific issues from the employer-employee relationship.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

And yet, "y'all" is a word that in and of itself integrates rather than segregates.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021

The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2016

Turning to go in again, the three were confronted with the Norman segregates.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

For institutional investors, it highlights the need for independent custody, segregated assets, multi-layered transaction authorization and limiting exposure to a single exchange, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

In a city that is multicultural but also segregated, Cooks said, “there are multiple art worlds,” and this “unprecedented project” puts them all in dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

But Mr. Steele believes an honest conversation would acknowledge the real progress America has made since the days when schools and water fountains were segregated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Michaela Rafferty, who works with the Anaka Women's Collective helping migrant women, said people arrive in Northern Ireland without an understanding of the complexity of division – or how housing is segregated along sectarian lines.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Army was strictly segregated by race—saw heavy fighting during the Meuse-Argonne campaign.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

At this World Cup, authorities didn’t bother segregating them, including at the potentially fractious semifinal between ancient enemies England and Argentina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

She feels mixed-gender cards rather than segregating the two codes will attract more interest.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025

Not only did Naidorf not lose his job, he says, but the company ceased segregating its locker rooms and drinking fountains after that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

When asked whether identifying and segregating the necessary proportion of the population may not be achievable for that approach to be effective, Bhattacharya replied by criticizing the experts who claimed that to be the case.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2022

“People aren’t even forcing us to sit apart, and we’re still segregating ourselves.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson


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